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NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
Washington Post ^ | December 5 2013 | Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani

Posted on 12/04/2013 3:19:55 PM PST by MeshugeMikey

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cellphonelocations; nsa; nsascandals; snowden




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1 posted on 12/04/2013 3:19:55 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

Too bad they can’t track down the Capitol One fraud protection line that goes to a singles phone.


2 posted on 12/04/2013 3:23:06 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

they cant even stop the insurance morons who spam my phone with robo calls....

fat chance they could do much but track locations...


3 posted on 12/04/2013 3:27:39 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: mountainlion; kiryandil

What they could track down is every phone that visited multiple polling places on election day.

If they wanted to, they could.


4 posted on 12/04/2013 3:40:34 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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5 posted on 12/04/2013 3:42:19 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: MeshugeMikey

So there is a record of where Bath House Barry was while Amb. Stevens and others were being
Savagedly murdered!

Release the data!


6 posted on 12/04/2013 4:21:04 PM PST by VRWCarea51
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To: null and void

They where all obama phones so they did not sound the alarm.

Had they been regular phones in red areas. We would have heard about it.


7 posted on 12/04/2013 4:27:04 PM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: cableguymn

Sad but probably true.


8 posted on 12/04/2013 4:28:04 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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9 posted on 12/04/2013 5:50:40 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: VRWCarea51

I suspect that not even barry is exempt....from NSA tracking


10 posted on 12/04/2013 5:51:43 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: MeshugeMikey

More endless government corruption...

The lengths this government will go to for more power and efforts to gain total control, is beyond sick.


11 posted on 12/04/2013 7:21:04 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
the divulged depths....of their..."interest" in our every move has gotten to be a BIT much hasnt it.




12 posted on 12/04/2013 7:46:37 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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