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Another shoe drops: USA
Today breaks the story that NSA has been getting call records for
every phone call placed in the US on AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth
networks. Only Qwest has refused to go along with this massive illegal
invasion of citizen (and customer) privacy.
Traffic analysis is a very powerful technique. All you need to know are when calls are made, from whom, and to whom. Apply a little statistical analysis and out comes an amazing picture of social networks. Want to know which hookers Cunningham has been using? NSA knows. Want to catch the White House jamming phones during an election? All you need are call records. NSA used to be limited to foreign surveillance only. It was a necessary balance on a secret organization with so much leeway. It's clear now that restriction is gone. So, apparently, is any sort of judicial oversight via the FISA court. In addition to this traffic analysis revelation, we also have the warrantless domestic wiretaps (with low yield) and the EFF lawsuit against AT&T's cooperation with NSA (which will presumably be killed because it's "a state secret"). Where does this stop? You should assume all your Internet traffic patterns are also being analyzed; it's even easier to do than phone calls. Please support the ACLU and the EFF. |
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