NSA gathers data on cellphone locations globally: report

The Nationwide Security Company gathers just about 5 billion information a day on the site of cell telephones global, including these of some Americans, the Washington Submit said on Wednesday, citing sources including paperwork bought by means of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The records feed a database that retailers details about the places of "at least tons of of hundreds of thousands of units," the newspaper said, consistent with the highest-secret documents and interviews with intelligence officers. The document said the NSA does now not target Americans' vicinity knowledge deliberately, but acquires a substantial amount of data on the whereabouts of domestic cell telephones "by the way." One manager advised the newspaper the NSA acquired "huge volumes" of place information by means of tapping into the cables that connect mobile networks globally and that serve U.S. cellphones in addition to overseas ones.