NSA Tracked US Cell Phone Locations For Two Years, Senator Says More Is Still Secret | Electronic Frontier Foundation

NSA Tracked US Cell Phone Locations For Two Years, Senator Says More Is Still Secret | Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The National Security Agency (NSA) has finally admitted to tracking the cell phone location of Americans. For two years, in 2010 and 2011, the spy agency ran an “experiment” pilot project in which they wanted to test how location information would flow into their massive databases containing other information on Americans.

As the New York Times reported on Wednesday, “it was unclear how many Americans’ locational data was collected as part of the project, whether the agency has held on to that information or why the program did not go forward.”

What’s clear to us is this was a massive invasion of privacy