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Why the “Secret Law” of the Patriot Act Is Probably About Location Tracking (cato.org)
3 points by hga on July 24, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Reads various tea leaves to make a case that the NSA is blanket recording location data, which is necessary for a particular highly desirable use case, specifically:

You have suspect A on your radar and he only communicates with B, C, and D face to face. Phone call metadata won't likely help, certainly not directly. Location data will only help you if you can match it against a very large data set including B, C and D's movements.




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