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mystery-ak:
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=CB4CFBB1-F5CF-4645-A3E6-B446782AADB3

 Rand Paul: Every cell phone likely tracked
By: Jose DelReal
June 13, 2013 03:10 PM EDT

Can you hear me now? Rand Paul suspects so.

The Kentucky Republican senator said Thursday afternoon that he suspects the United States government is collecting data from every cell phone in America.

“My suspicion is that every cell phone in America is having their data tracked,” Paul told reporters. “While we don’t have proof that there are other orders, I doubt that the orders have been directed to one cell phone company.”



His comments go beyond what has been confirmed since last week’s leak regarding a secret National Security Agency program that collected massive amounts of metadata from Verizon, but serve as the underlying basis for a lawsuit he intends to file against the United States government.

Paul admitted that he does not know the precise legal mechanisms that would structure the lawsuit, saying he would need “help and assistance from attorneys to explain to me whether or not or how you can have a class action lawsuit with this many people.”

He did mention, however, the possibility of joining in on the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

“To me it smacks of a general warrant… A specific warrant is supposed to be a name, a person, and some thing,” Paul told POLITICO following the event, alluding to the specific items listed in the Fourth Amendment regarding searches and seizures.

General Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, has said that the NSA only accesses the content of the data once a court order has been issued specifically articulating suspected threats to national security.

But Paul takes issue with General Alexander’s assertion that the right balance between security and privacy is struck.

“When you collect it from a billion phone calls a day, even if you say you’re going to keep the name private, the possibility for abuse is enormous,” Paul said.

andy58-in-nh:
Nothing to worry about, say the Democrats.

It's not as though that idiot George Bush were still President.

Then, it would be positively chilling....

DCPatriot:
Today on Rush's show, a caller who was an executive in the communications industry explained what product he had available on the market.

BEFORE your phone rings...as in caller ID...information pops up on your screen as to:

Name
Address
FICO score
Whether you're in foreclosure
how much you make
if you've contributed to any political party
your voter registration
your last few posts on Facebook and Twitter

and a whole lot more!!


And I'm dead serious.

Oceander:

--- Quote from: DCPatriot on June 13, 2013, 08:10:41 pm ---Today on Rush's show, a caller who was an executive in the communications industry explained what product he had available on the market.

BEFORE your phone rings...as in caller ID...information pops up on your screen as to:

Name
Address
FICO score
Whether you're in foreclosure
how much you make
if you've contributed to any political party
your voter registration
your last few posts on Facebook and Twitter

and a whole lot more!!


And I'm dead serious.

--- End quote ---

Is that all?  I would imagine that any publicly-available criminal records would show up as well.  If not, they could be easily added for many states; in fact, mere arrest records are often made public as well, something that I think is truly unjust given that the police often simply arrest people just to arrest them and leave it to the DA to sort things out and decide if charges should be filed or not.

Oceander:
Also, viz. tracking cell-phones:  not only is the data content likely being tracked, the physical location of the handset is trivial to trace; using that, and the data from any particular call or data transfer and you can determine who the speaker was (the owner or someone else), who they were communicating with, and where they were located.

Speaking of which, I've always wondered how Google maps gets its traffic data - i.e., data showing which roads have a lot of traffic and which do not - and just recently I began to wonder if it wasn't using data from cellphones in which for any cell-phone that was located within the roadbed, the movement of that cellphone could be measured and that data used to infer how quickly, or slowly, the traffic on that road was moving at the location of the cellphone.

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