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least “hundreds of millions” phones monitors the NSA world, say documents of Edward Snowden. Thus, the U.S. intelligence create motion profiles that used to “unimaginable” appeared.
The U.S. NSA gathers information according to the “Washington Post” every day for almost five billion records of the locations of mobile phones all over the world. The NSA can use it to create motion profiles of people in a way that would be “once unthinkable” was. The secret store and analyze the location data of “at least hundreds of millions of devices.”
the NSA reportedly This gives not only information about the whereabouts of people, but can also make a picture of the contacts of the phone owner. The monitoring is directed against “foreign targets”. U.S. citizens take the NSA, however, not specifically targeted, but grab the secret service as a byproduct of mass surveillance also a significant scale data from U.S. mobile phones from. The “Washington Post” refers to documents of the former U.S. intelligence employee Edward Snowden and interviews with intelligence officials.
In the article, an NSA employee portrays with permission of his masters, such as the monitoring program works. The Secret Service taps therefore the cables, mobile phone networks around the world can, and it draws “on a vast scale” location data from.
NSA analysts can reportedly make cell phones all over the world find, track the movements and uncover hidden relationships between two or more people. With a “Co-Traveler” analysis tool called the intelligence reported to comb through the data by matching patterns of movement to expose the network of terror suspects.
the arbitrary nature of mobile locating the NSA collects, according to “Washington Post” an almost unimaginable mountain of data. The newspaper quoted from an internal document of May, 2012, in which the intelligence acknowledges that the program data on climb “our ability to receive, process and store.” The NSA had subsequently expanded its computing facilities.
Since June Snowden documents have brought a number of Spähaktivitäten the NSA and allied secret to light. Thus, the NSA monitored apparently not only mass e-mails and phone calls from people around the world, but also heard from leaders of friendly countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
In Germany and other countries attended the NSA surveillance outrage because they violate the privacy of millions of respectable citizens. U.S. President Barack Obama ordered a review of intelligence activities, in December the result is to be present. Basically, however, the White House defended the spying programs over and over again as a necessary tool in the fight against terrorism.
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