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The telephone company has little to no incentive to search through your telephone records and look for correlations. Further, the telephone company has no capab
by x0054 13y ago
The telephone company has little to no incentive to search through your telephone records and look for correlations. Further, the telephone company has no capability to correlate your Internet data to your phone records, to your physical mail, and come up with conclusions about you. The NSA does.
- kenjackson 13y agoHuh? For many people your phone company, is their internet company. They already have your address (they have to deliver the cable to it) and your billing information. The don't even need to do any fancy analytics. They have all your data served up on a platter. As the poster noted, it's not as if the gov't is having to piece together data from thousands of sources. Almost all the metadata can be put together from a handful of sources.