http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/how-americans-were-deceived-about-cell-phone-location-data/282239/ / earliest articles sourced Edward Snowden pocket pockets NSA collect location data generate possibility proved worrisome concern public privacy experts surveillance state routinely tracked our movement movements feel dystopian enable abuse various TV Web print commentators commentator Congress concerned letter signed 26 senators declared NSA bulk collection phone records significant impact privacy records collected includes cell phone locational data effectively turning Americans American America USA United States of America cell phones tracking devices cell sight site tower mobile phone cell-site location data in bulk National Security Agency gathering 5 billion records a day whereabouts of cellphones around the world Washington Post reported vast database stores information about locations hundreds of millions of devices affected tactic NSA target Americans’ location data Information whereabouts domestic cellphones incidentally foreseeable not deliberate result mobile phone senior collection manager, speaking condition anonymity permission NSA getting vast volumes location data tap tapping cables connect mobile networks globally serve U.S. cellphones domestic foreign cellphones every year location information under this program Clapper wrote Director of the National Security Agency Senate Select Committee on Intelligence notify Congress cell site location information notify Congress collect cell location data Wyden NSA's rhetorical evasions misleadingly played department of justice DOJ /
