Report: US Tracking Billions of Cellphone Locations

A major U.S. newspaper is reporting that the clandestine National Security Agency is tracking the location of cellphones around the world in a vast effort to follow known intelligence targets and the people they are connecting with. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the spy agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day with the surveillance, and then analyzing the movements of the cellphone users and possible terrorism threats they pose to the U.S. and other...

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