Posted on 06/17/2013 4:38:49 PM PDT by Nachum
1) That's pretty stupid, considering most terrorists use throwaway, one-time use cell phones. Knowing the location of a suspect call would help you track a suspect.
2) Since the real reason the NSA does this surveillance is to spy on Americans for Zero and the paranoid Powers That Be (they're afraid of 'the people' - those they call 'civilians' - and probably the military, but they're working on eliminating that threat), all they really need is the phone number and they can quickly find out where you live anyway.
This is just an attempt to put at ease the low-info Amerikans, if they're even paying attention at all. I'm sure they're recording the locations, too.
Hallelujah, I believe.
So far, every time they say they’re not doing something two days later we find out they’re doing exactly that.
Echelon, anyone?
What makes the NSA think they have any credibility left at all? Now that they claim they aren’t collecting that data, I’m pretty sure they are.
Wow- nice statue of Valerie Jarrett when she takes her mask off.
Really.... so I am curious.
HOw did law enforcement official determine that the Boston bombers were “in the vicinity” of a 2011 throat slashing murder due to their cell phone activity if they did not track this cell phone data.
Uh huh... checks in the mail and baby I swear I won’t...
LLS
Scotland.
LLS
Really.... so I am curious.
HOw did law enforcement official determine that the Boston bombers were “in the vicinity” of a 2011 throat slashing murder due to their cell phone activity if they did not track this cell phone data.
I remember the FBI person bragging we can get all the social media for a 48 hour window and narrow it down to one square mile of the finish how could they do that if they didn’t have GPS.
In the Boston bombing.
Well that bit of "restraint" makes it all OK. Sure they don't collect data on location - it has no purpose whatever to know where a call originated/ended, especially if they are supposedly tracking terrorists and other bad guys. The only place it wouldn't matter is if they are amassing data on everyday citizens who tend to live and stay in a known area.
CHOOSES being the operative word (present tense). For all we know the choice was made the morning NSA officials made this statement and once again chose to collect geolocational info that afternoon.
NSA doesn’t collect any kind of data on American citizens.
—I. M. de’Crapper, NSA
and the irs doesn’t snoop through your medical records either, and 0 is a US citizen.....some one is smoking crack.
They are tracking you...they know what cell towers you are hitting. they can deduce a patter of your usage or even anomalies if you go somewhere on vacation or hunting in the north woods or whatever.
They don’t need to track you down to the millimeter, a quarter mile is more than close enough.
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