NSA Collect 5 Billion Mobile Phone Location Records Per Day
Do you know? The government tracking you. Quelle surprise. In what must be one of the least shocking pieces of news come from Edward Snowden leaks, the Washington Post reports when the National Security Agency has been collecting surveillance data on foreign mobile phone user 's location around the world, and some Americans may catch net . The database, which contains about 5 billion records per day , is so great that the netname right tools to sift through it all. This does not mean when an agency could not do a "good " to make use of analytical applications , though.
One such program , ominously labeled Co- traveler , to the determination of " appropriate behavior in relationships , according to data from signals intelligence activity node designators ( or sigads short ) , located worldwide , including one codenamed " Stormbrew . Here Jargon much for what principle, data concentrators that collect geolocation information down to the level of a cell tower. Single traveler can find the exact rate on the basis of phone users are moving together, even if they are unknown threats - often present with Meetups suspect may reveal a close, for example.
As we’ve come to expect now, NSA and Director Office of National Intelligence says that the location -based supervision is legitimate. Agency representatives say Post the collection system does not monitor the targeted Americans. However, the NSA also says that it cannot determine how much of the U.S. population to get swept up in the place of a scan, it is feared that these objectives can be protected by the fourth amendment rights of the search.
One such program , ominously labeled Co- traveler , to the determination of " appropriate behavior in relationships , according to data from signals intelligence activity node designators ( or sigads short ) , located worldwide , including one codenamed " Stormbrew . Here Jargon much for what principle, data concentrators that collect geolocation information down to the level of a cell tower. Single traveler can find the exact rate on the basis of phone users are moving together, even if they are unknown threats - often present with Meetups suspect may reveal a close, for example.
As we’ve come to expect now, NSA and Director Office of National Intelligence says that the location -based supervision is legitimate. Agency representatives say Post the collection system does not monitor the targeted Americans. However, the NSA also says that it cannot determine how much of the U.S. population to get swept up in the place of a scan, it is feared that these objectives can be protected by the fourth amendment rights of the search.
