Metadata: What’s in Your Phone Records
"The public doesn't understand," Landau told Mayer. "It's much more intrusive than content."
“The average consumer should be afraid that the government is creating this map of their associations,” said Mark Rumold, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “They use the metadata to create communications maps of Americans. So when they have a target — someone they believe is connected to terrorism — pull up their communications map.” The First and Fourth Amendment implications, he said, should make Americans “very angry.”
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