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 U.S. National Security Agency's CO-TRAVELER operation

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That is especially true when it comes to citizens of foreign nations. And while the NSA spied on foreign citizens and leaders, it also spent plenty of time monitoring ordinary Americans and even Congress. Between PRISM, Boundless Informant, Co-Traveler, XKeyscore and SKYNET, the US government built ...
Using documents obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Washington Post first reported on a program known as CO-TRAVELER, which sifts through cellphone metadata looking for and automatically flagging examples of suspicious behavior indicative of tradecraft. Advanced computational ...

... on NSA location-tracking tools that collect massive amounts of information “on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world,” mainly by tapping phone companies' infrastructure to observe which towers particular phones connect to when. A tool called CO-TRAVELER uses this data to find relationships ...
You've heard all about the NSA's mass surveillance, but with the ton of revelations reported over the last year, it's not simple to understand just how far-reaching the spying programs are. This chart from ProPublica is a good bird's eye view of the issue. The NSA's programs are plotted on the graphic ...
In fact, we have seen the NSA participate in economic espionage, diplomatic spying and suspicionless surveillance of entire populations. Even worse, the NSA has ... CO-TRAVELER: Under this operation, the US collects location information from global cell towers, Wi-Fi, and GPS hubs. This information is ...
Last Wednesday, classified documents obtained by The Washington Post revealed how location-based mobile data, in particular, was of interest to NSA. Using a tool called “Co-Traveler,” the agency is able to gather insight on cell phone users' travels and habits by “tapping into cables” connecting mobile ...

According to the Post, the N.S.A. applied a group of analytic tools known as Co-Traveler, a code name that says a lot more than Wolfpoint. With Co-Traveler, the N.S.A. does not, according to the Post, have to start by having a reason to suspect you; you become suspicious because of where you have been ...
An article yesterday in the Washington Post disclosed the NSA's massive cell phone location program. The program, codenamed CO-TRAVELER, is designed to track who meets with whom and covers everyone who carries a cell phone, all around the world. With neither public debate nor court ...
The Debrief: Facebook's suggested friends feature takes snooping to a whole new level. Next time you have a harmless stalk or leave your ...
Between PRISM, Boundless Informant, Co-Traveler, XKeyscore and SKYNET ... At this point, the NSA and the Obama White House have set an ...
... a special program labeled CO-TRAVELER analyze and monitor the ... The NSA's secret project codenamed Boundless Informant seeks to ...
At the top is the "Co-Traveler/FASCIA" program, in which the NSA collected 5 ... The chart doesn't cover all the NSA's spying programs--and, ...
You've heard all about the NSA's mass surveillance, but with the ton of ... At the top is the "Co-Traveler/FASCIA" program, in which the NSA ...
The NSA has confirmed that it is searching data collected under Section 702 of .... Under the CO-TRAVELER operation, the US collects location ...
In a document disclosed this year, the NSA defined their “collection posture” ... CO-TRAVELER: Under this operation, the US collects location ...
As a society, we have crossed a threshold that few were willing to address until Edward Snowden's NSA document leaks forced a national ...
“I think that they are similar in idea,” Fakoury said of NSA's “co-traveler” tactics and the “tower dump” methods employed by police – “meaning ...

First, the N.S.A. isn't supposed to be spying on Americans, not ... With Co-Traveler, the N.S.A. does not, according to the Post, have to start by ...
First, the N.S.A. isn't supposed to be spying on Americans, not ... With Co-Traveler, the N.S.A. does not, according to the Post, have to start by ...
Outside the pages of Just Security and a handful of other places, it's hard to find much debate over the NSA's overseas surveillance activities.
So for instance, as Marcy Wheeler has suggested, NSA might consult its databases of cell phone contact lists or the results of "co-traveler analytics" capable of determining when two phones are in consistent physical proximity (along with who-knows ...
Using documents obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Washington Post first reported on a program known as CO-TRAVELER, which sifts through cellphone metadata looking for and automatically flagging examples of suspicious behavior ...


 

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