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Why the NSA Phone Database Story Matters

Ryan Singel writes thoroughly on the matter over on 27B Stroke 6:

Watching the sky lighten at 5 a.m. this morning during my cab ride home from the TV studio where I groggily joined a Democracy Now! discussion of the revelation that three of the largest phone companies are turning over their call database to the NSA for a data-mining operation , I realized what I'd failed to get across in that show and during the Open Source show I joined yesterday afternoon.

You can't understand yesterday's news without thinking of it as one more known component of an architecture of surveillance.

Here are some of the known and alleged pieces.

posted by Fergie @ 5/12/2006 12:28:00 PM