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Documents obtained by The Washington Post indicate that the National Security Agency is collecting billions of records a day to track the location of mobile phone users around the world. This bulk collection, performed under the NSAs international surveillance authority, taps into the telephony links of majortelecommunications providers including some here in the United States. The NSA collects this location and travel habit data to do target development to find unknown associates oftargets it already knows about.
To accomplish this, the NSA compiles information on a vast database of devices and their locations. Most of those collected, by definition, are suspected of no wrongdoing. Officials say they do not purposely collect U.S. phone locations in bulk, but a large number are swept up incidentally. Using these vast location databases, the NSA applies sophisticated analytics techniques to identify what it calls co-travelers unknown associates who might be traveling with, or meeting up with a known target.
HERE IS HOW IT WORKS
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/how-the-nsa-is-tracking-people-right-now/634/
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)That's why I make it a point to type NSA assholes every chance I get hoping for some kind of Google bomb effect.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Knowing big brother is scooping up every byte they send across the wire.