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USA-NSA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

05 December 2013

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"The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable."

See the full article: NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
(Washington Post, link)

See also: How the NSA is tracking people right now (pdf)
And see: Example of current records (pdf): Note transfer to MARINA:.Marina is the primary storage and analysis tool for “metadata.”

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