The NSA Tracks Billions of Cellphones’ Location Data Every Day

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
December 5, 2013

ImageView.aspxThis is just getting stupider and stupider.  Obviously, the bottom line is, they collect every single piece of digital information which exists, and keep it on their databases.  But they keep releasing these new surprises every couple weeks.

Why would they not have been tracking every person in the world’s movements via cellphone GPS data?

With this data, they would not simply be calculating where you go, but who you meet, how long you spend with them, and so on.  Possibly even recording your conversation with them (though I don’t know, that hasn’t come out yet).

The good news (I guess) is that it must be almost impossible to make sense of this data, even with whatever really expensive software they have.

But it is still sick and wrong.  We must stop these people.

From the AP:

The National Security Agency tracks the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day overseas, including those belonging to Americans abroad, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The NSA inadvertently gathers the location records of “tens of millions of Americans who travel abroad” annually, along with the billions of other records it collects by tapping into worldwide mobile network cables, the newspaper said in a report on its website.

Such data means the NSA can track the movements of almost any cellphone around the world, and map the relationships of the cellphone user. The Post said a powerful analytic computer program called CO-TRAVELER crunches the data of billions of unsuspecting people, building patterns of relationships between them by where their phones go. That can reveal a previously unknown terrorist suspect, in guilt by cellphone-location association, for instance.

As the NSA doesn’t know which part of the data it might need, the agency keeps up to 27 terabytes, or more than double the text content of the Library of Congress’ print collection, the Post said. A 2012 internal NSA document said the volumes of data from the location program were “outpacing our ability to ingest, process and store” it, the newspaper said.

The program is detailed in documents given to the newspaper by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden. The Post also quotes unidentified NSA officials, saying they spoke with the permission of their agency.