Technical debt in the NSA’s phone call data program?

Freedom to Tinker 2014-02-10

Summary:

According to stories last Friday in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, the NSA’s phone call data program seems to be less comprehensive than previously thought—the agency is apparently collecting data on only about 20-30% of calls, and mostly from landlines. I’m quoted in the Post story saying that this “calls into question whether [...]

Link:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/technical-debt-in-the-nsas-phone-call-data-program/

From feeds:

Gudgeon and gist » Freedom to Tinker

Tags:

metadata nsa surveillance technical debt

Authors:

Ed Felten

Date tagged:

02/10/2014, 17:30

Date published:

02/10/2014, 09:20