NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world. One senior collection manager said “we are getting vast volumes” of location data from around the world by tapping into the cables that connect mobile networks globally and that serve U.S. cellphones as well as foreign ones.

Analysts can find cellphones anywhere in the world, retrace their movements and expose hidden relationships among the people using them.

These most sophisticated tools can analyze and instantly store profiles of every individual's activities, communications and relationships.

This mass spying program, called CO-TRAVELER, is incompatible with democracy.

The domination over society by the Pentagon, using a total mass surveillance grid that was created in absolute secret and without the consent of the people, is the negation of democracy, personal freedom and individual privacy.

Millions of people are angry, outraged and unwilling to see democracy be eviscerated by intelligence agencies that act without accountability and in defiance of the First and Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. They are demanding that Congress end the system of mass surveillance.

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