Since the Snowden leaks, the US government has sought to repair his public image and to limit public knowledge of its invasions of privacy. Before 2015, the US government has been allowed access to five years of phone metadata value of every person in the three jumps of a suspected terrorist. In 2015, the most blatant bit of the Patriot Act were allowed to expire and the Government of metadata phone mandate was reduced to two jumps and eighteen months. A new study three Stanford researchers shows that the US government is still able to collect metadata about 25,000 phone for every single terrorist suspect "seed". Under the old rules, the NSA was allowed to spy on 20 million phones by simply suspected terrorist "seed". In essence, by 2013, the researchers estimated that the NSA had "legal authority to access phone records for the majority of the total population of the United States."
course the US government has made a great show of being respectful of privacy, leaving the provisions of the Patriot Act expire. the amount of metadata scrapable terror suspect dropped several orders of magnitude. However, the amount of suspected terrorists also increased to no fever in the meantime. It is important to note that metadata are simultaneously becoming more and more relevant as the world becomes more interconnected. the average amount of companies / applications with access to the metadata of your phone has increased dramatically along with the penetration of smartphones in recent years. the terrorist database still exists and your name can be added without any concrete evidence. The NSA now has better pools of metadata to focus their time and efforts on and they are probably not even notice the Downsize in the telephone data. We're just starting to get numbers on how metadata phone strips away our privacy -. Imagine what kind of privacy in our Internet metadata gives away
What information can be collected from single phone metadata?
Stanford researchers analyzed metadata 823 volunteers phones. In total, they had access to metadata (time stamps, time, parts) approximately 250,000 1,0,000 calls and text messages. From these data, the researchers were able to discern the location of the current city for 57% of the volunteers. Additionally, the metadata has been able to identify not only whether or not a volunteer had a significant other, but also to identify what his telephone number is. Even more damning was the researcher's ability to identify private information such as property and health gun just metadata requirements, then easily check the inferences through public information sources.
The Stanford team is hoping that their data, which somewhat quantified the amount of damage caused by the telephone surveillance metadata will help to sensitize decision-makers. As more and more data from the front shows "monitoring of bulk metadata to be an ineffective intelligence strategy," we hope that the world and its governments are coming to see the madness in otherwise mass surveillance ethics without checks and balances. In the meantime, know that all metadata, not just your phone, may still play just for the NSA.
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