NSA Tracking Cell Phone Locations Worldwide

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html

by haldujai • 13 years ago

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angersock• 13 years ago

NSA Director Keith Alexander disclosed in Senate testimony in October that the NSA had run a pilot project in 2010 and 2011 to collect “samples” of U.S. cellphone location data. The data collected were never available for intelligence analysis purposes, and the project was discontinued because it had no “operational value,” he said.

Alexander allowed that a broader collection of such data “may be something that is a future requirement for the country, but it is not right now.”

res0nat0r• 13 years ago

FTA: The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount of information on the whereabouts of domestic cellphones “incidentally,” a legal term that connotes a foreseeable but not deliberate result.

So the US focused program was cancelled, but the overseas program is still in play, exactly within their mandate.

TrainedMonkey• 13 years ago

Seems to be duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850036

NSA Tracking Cell Phone Locations Worldwide

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