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New study shows NSA phone metadata can reveal EVERYTHING about your life
Daily Caller ^ | 2:41 PM 03/13/2014 | Giuseppe Macri

Posted on 03/13/2014 7:45:41 PM PDT by gooblah

New research published by Stanford Univeristy Wednesday reveal phone and Internet metadata collected by the NSA can expose far more information about an individual than the agency admits, including, “medical conditions, financial and legal connections, and even whether they own a gun.”

Two of the school’s computer science graduate students were able to uncover the sensitive personal details of individuals from phone data details, like the numbers of callers and recipients, the location of callers, phone serial numbers and the length of conversations — all of which are data the signals intelligence agency collects in bulk both domestically and internationally.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/13/new-study-shows-nsa-phone-metadata-can-reveal-everything-about-your-life/#ixzz2vtwt0IcF

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhonsa; nsa; privacy; spying; surveillance
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1 posted on 03/13/2014 7:45:41 PM PDT by gooblah
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To: gooblah

If you haven’t done anything wrong why would you care? /s


2 posted on 03/13/2014 7:48:18 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: gooblah

Ok, NSA, so how may fingers am I displaying right now?


3 posted on 03/13/2014 7:49:20 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: null and void

Conspiracy Nut-job Pig-worthy?


4 posted on 03/13/2014 7:49:22 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: unixfox

Just one.


5 posted on 03/13/2014 7:49:38 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: gooblah

Only if you put it in the public via the web and phone.


6 posted on 03/13/2014 7:50:04 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and is not afraid of the unlawful.)
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To: gooblah

I presented some of my doctoral research at a conference in New Orleans this summer. One of the keynote speakers talked about this. Computer science people are generally a liberal-leaning bunch, but the entire audience was universally libertarian on this point. You can find out essentially everything about a person from their “metadata” and the point was that whether the NSA associates the metadata directly with a person or not is irrelevant since it’s uniquely correlated to you anyway.

In other words, **** the NSA.


7 posted on 03/13/2014 7:50:40 PM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: gooblah

Revolution.


8 posted on 03/13/2014 7:51:39 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: gooblah

Revolution.


9 posted on 03/13/2014 7:51:39 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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11 posted on 03/13/2014 7:52:11 PM PDT by tomkat (3%+1)
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To: gooblah

Those b@stards are most likely claiming MY Meatloaf Recipe as their own by now!

Unconstitutional!


12 posted on 03/13/2014 7:54:31 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: flintsilver7
Computer science people are generally a liberal-leaning bunch, but the entire audience was universally libertarian on this point.

Academics, yes. Practitioners, no.

Most people in the trenches are apolitical or libertarian.

13 posted on 03/13/2014 7:58:25 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: OneWingedShark

Not only do I not need your meta data to tell you how many you are holding up, I can even tell which one it is!


14 posted on 03/13/2014 7:59:17 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: gooblah

Imagine the metadate God has on each of us: words, actions,thoughts, motives....


15 posted on 03/13/2014 8:00:44 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: flintsilver7
There was no need to do a study on this to begin with.

Anyone "in the life" knew from the beginning that you can find out just about everything you need to know about a call from its jacket and by datamining all of the interconnections within a cohort.

People who bought the excuse that "it was only metadata" were either stupid, ignorant of the facts, or deliberately lying.

16 posted on 03/13/2014 8:02:08 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: gooblah
My counter espionage technique is to embed the phrase "Candle Jack" into all of my posts about the NSA/FBI/CIA/FSB/MSS/MI5/MI6. You'd be surprised how many spooks read with their lips. Now nobody knows where they've gone to.

Except Candle Jack.

17 posted on 03/13/2014 8:05:07 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: tomkat

Resist all you want.....jus’ sayin’....


18 posted on 03/13/2014 8:05:31 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Content is not metadata.


19 posted on 03/13/2014 8:06:07 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: gooblah

they won’t get much from ours.

We have texting blocked on our dumb phones and rarely make a phone call, like 2 per week maybe.


20 posted on 03/13/2014 8:09:43 PM PDT by dalereed
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