The fact is that if you have someone's phone number, you generally have access to all that other information because linking it to a name and thus everything el

The fact is that if you have someone's phone number, you generally have access to all that other information because linking it to a name and thus everything else is fairly trivial, even for ordinary people not affiliated with the NSA. Claiming it's somehow okay and protecting privacy because they have the phone numbers without names is ridiculous.