It belabors the obvious to note that even a few million phone numbers is "a very small percentage of the total volume of metadata records" if the Government has collected metadata records on hundreds of millions of phone numbers.
The story broke that the NSA collected metadata on phone records of Americans.
The data and collected metadata are shared in the EEG/ERP Portal.
The NSA now must use a "specific selection term" to collect metadata.
Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind et al maintain that collecting metadata is innocuous because it does not involve reading the content of communications.
The confusion makes even the DPLA's seemingly modest effort to collect metadata fraught with complications, according to David Weinberger.
One was its use of "pen register/trap-and-trace" orders to collect metadata about particular targets' communications.
The NSA, for example, collects metadata on every phone call placed in the United States.
This allows StatusToday to collect metadata and audit information for all essential activity performed by any employee in the system.
The program collects metadata on phone calls, including those of United States citizens.
