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NSA tracks hundreds of millions of cell phones worldwide

posted onDecember 4, 2013
by l33tdawg

Where's Waldo? Ask the NSA.

That's right, you can add location tracking to the list of surveillance activities being carried out by the secretive US National Security Agency.

Citing documents from the trove leaked by former agency contractor Edward Snowden, as well as statements from US intelligence officials, The Washington Post reports that the agency is sucking up "5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cell phones around the world" and storing location info on "at least hundreds of millions of devices." And though US citizens aren't targeted by the program (according to the NSA, which also says the program is legal), location data on an unspecified number of Americans in the states does get captured, the Post reports.

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