[Infowarrior] - Fwd: NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

[Richard Forno]

Certainly not a completely new revelation or capability, but it's the news-du-jour from the Snowden Files.   --rick

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Paul F
> 
> NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
> 
> "The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a
> day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to
> top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials,
> enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map
> their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable."
> 
> "The records feed a vast database that stores information about the
> locations of at least hundreds of millions of devices, according to the
> officials and the documents, which were provided by former NSA
> contractor Edward Snowden. New projects created to analyze that data
> have provided the intelligence community with what amounts to a mass
> surveillance tool."
> 
> Much more:
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html