Technology blog Mashable looks through an FBI document dump and explains how AT&T got so good at discarding their customers’ personal rights. The layman’s explanation seems to be that by use of several seemingly simple data-mining algorithms, they scan through call logs and track the connections between phone numbers.
| Essentially, if you talk to someone who talks to terrorists, your phone records could be in scrutiny. The research for this technology was done pre-2000, in an effort by AT&T to curtail those who made fraudulent credit-card calls, but has since been re-applied by the FBI to discern new people of interest.� Gone are the days of the McCarthy era, when folks were solicited to name names - your phone company now (at no extra cost to you!) provides this service for you. |
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