Government Phone Surveillance for Dummies

theatlantic.com

Some glaring wrong points.

knowing the metadata does not only tell them "who you called and when"

since it also include the tower IMEI and trunk, it probably also know your location when you place the call. And if it was to another mobile phone, the location of the other end of the call.

The quote in the article was "The government seems to have a list of all the people that Verizon customers called and who called them; how long they spoke; and, perhaps -- depending on how precise the cell-phone-tower information in the metadata is, where they were on a given day."

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