NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide

tramp writes "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. Of course it is 'only metadata' and absolutely not invading privacy if you ask our 'beloved' NSA." Pretty soon, the argument about whether you have in any given facet of your life a "reasonable expectation of privacy" may take on a whole new meaning. Also at Slash BI.

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Re:Reasonable expectations

[NatasRevol]

Before you fight it, you have to know it's happening.

Without Snowden, no one outside of the NSA would know all this has been happening for a decade.

Which makes it all the more bizarre that people think Snowden is a traitor. He shone the light on all the illegality of the government.