The NSA has the authority to get the gelocation info from your phone, but it chooses not to exercise it, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Citing a statement from the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI), it writes that the NSA program doesn’t collect "any
cell phone locational information." An unnamed official stated that
location data doesn’t provide enough intelligence to justify the amount
of resources that would be required to manage it.
Earlier this month, a leaked secret court order exposed a secret NSA intelligence program for compiling "telephony metadata"
such as time and duration of calls, IMEI numbers, and "comprehensive
communications routing information," the latter of which could be used
to track individual users’ physical location. At a Congressional hearing
last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that phone
surveillance data could only be used for terrorism investigations.
But the dragnet’s efficacy at producing actionable intelligence is
still unknown — NSA director Keith Alexander testified that it has helped to prevent "dozens" of terrorism incidents, but so far his office hasn’t produced any specific figures.
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