NSA Tracks Billions Of Cellphone Locations Worldwide Everyday

NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide, Snowden Documents Show -- Washington Post

The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.

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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More News On The NSA's Cell Phone Tracking Program

Report: NSA Tracks Billions of Cellphones Daily -- AP
U.S. spy agency gathers data on cellphone locations globally: report -- Reuters
NSA Tracking Cell Phone Location Data Worldwide -- Time
NSA reportedly collects 5 billion cell phone location records a day -- FOX News
NSA collects nearly 5 billion cellphone location records every day -- PBS
NSA gathering 5bn cell phone records daily, Snowden documents show -- The Guardian
Snowden leak reveals NSA tracks cell phone locations on unprecedented scale - report -- RT
NSA Collects 5Bln Cell Phone Records Daily – Report -- RIA Novosti
NSA collecting 5 billion cellphone location records per day -- Endgadget
NSA collects 5 billion cell location records a day, Snowden leaks say -- ZDNet
NSA tracks hundreds of millions of cell phones worldwide -- CNet
5 Shocking New Revelations on NSA Cellphone Tracking -- Dana Liebelson, Mother Jones

My Comment: A graphic that explains how this NSA program works can be viewed here.