Research demonstrates long reach of phone record surveillance

Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 07:00 in Psychology & Sociology

(Phys.org) —Two computer science graduate students have found that the NSA's mass collection of phone records can yield much more information about people's private lives than the U.S. government claims. New research shows how "metadata" surveillance can be used to identify information about callers including medical conditions, financial and legal connections, and even whether they own a gun.

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