[Nachum]

My electronic breadcrumbs are fairly old and stale.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Bastards

[Paine in the Neck]

This is only one of many types of so-called 'metadata' that NSA collects. What is metadata and how can it be used against you? They use it to build social networks that can identify you better than your DNA.

The NSA has been creating maps of American citizens' social networks

Why do they want to do that? What could social networks be used for in the hands of government? Consider:

Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere

How will such capabilities be used now? How They Hunt

Is it already too late?

[edpc]

Due to the nature of my work, I spend a lot of time in medical facilities. They either think I'm a doctor or a person with Munchausen Syndrome.

[pluvmantelo]

I’m wondering if going back to using a pager would be of any use to avoid the tracking.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

How about a list of all the terrorist found by the NSA with all this surveillence? What? What you say? None? None, are you kidding me?

[Albion Wilde]

My electronic breadcrumbs: the drugstore, the Dollar store, several grocery stores, the drycleaners, Sam’s Club, the car mechanic, the post office, McDonald’s, WalMart, Lowe’s, church, home again. Knock yersefs out, gubmit snoops.

[The Antiyuppie]

None of this is rocket science; what DOES get tricky is doing it near real-time and with extrapolation. Throwing hardware alone at problems like these isn’t enough. Been there, done that, and I threw out my sweaty and food-stained T-shirt.

[VerySadAmerican]

I’d bet the phone doesn’t even have to be turned on.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[null and void]

So, if they actually wanted to, they could identify everyone who went from polling place to polling place to polling place to vote multiple times, couldn’t they?

[crickets]