La
Administración de la Seguridad Nacional está recopilando en secreto información
telefónica de registro para todos los
residentes de ESTADOS UNIDOS relacionada
a la red de Verizon. "Bajo los
términos de la orden, el número de componentes en una llamada se entregó, como
es la ubicación de datos, la duración de la llamada, identificadores únicos, y
el tiempo y la duración de todas las llamadas", informa el periódico The
Guardian, que dio a conocer la noticia del proyecto top-secret tras haber obtenido una orden judicial que
ordena a Verizon entregar la información.
El contenido
de la llamada no están registrados y tampoco se sabe si Verizon es el único
teléfono celular transportista cumple con el espionaje masivo proyecto. La
orden de la corte se refiere a todas las llamadas a, desde y dentro de los
Estados Unidos. Con este llamado "metadatos", el gobierno sabe
"la identidad de cada persona y con quien se comunica electrónicamente, el
tiempo que habla, y su ubicación en el momento de la comunicación",
explica el tutor.
Vea:
Titular: Report: NSA Secretly Collecting
Phone Records Of All U.S. Verizon Calls
Fuente: techcrunch (PUNTO) com/2013/06/05/report-nsa-secretly-collecting-phone-records-of-all-verizon-calls/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing11%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D323987
Fecha: 5 de junio de 2013
Por Gregory Ferenstein
The National Security Administration is
secretly collecting phone record information for all U.S. calls on the Verizon
network. “Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on
a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers,
and the time and duration of all calls,” reports The Guardian, which
broke the story of the top-secret project after it obtained record of a court
order mandating Verizon hand over the information.
The contents of the call are not recorded and
it is also not known whether Verizon is the only cell-phone carrier complying
with the massive spying project. The court order concerns all calls to, from,
and within the United States.
With this so-called “metadata,” the
government knows “the identity of every person with whom an individual
communicates electronically, how long they spoke, and their location at the
time of the communication,” explains the Guardian.
The Senate’s tech-savviest member, Ron
Wyden (CrunchGov Grade: A), has been
discretely warning citizens of these kinds of secretive government projects.
“There is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the
law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows,”
wrote Wyden and Senator Mark Udall to embattled Attorney Eric Holder.
The order apparently draws from a 2001 Bush-era
provision in the Patriot Act (50 USC section 1861). The revelation dovetails
similar exposes on massivegovernment spying projects, including one project to
combine federal datasets and look for patterns on anything which could be
related to terrorism.
Late last year, I wrote about a few actual
harms that citizens should be worried about from these types of big-data spying
programs. Blackmailing citizens critical of the government seemed like a
distant hypothetical, until we learned that the IRS was auditing Tea Party
groups and journalists were being wiretapped. Nefarious actors inside the
government like to abuse national security programs for political ends, and
that should make us all (even more) suspect of government spying.
Some government secrecy is necessary for
national security purposes. But it’s justified based on our trust that the
information will be used with care. With every passing scandal, the
justification for these types of programs becomes more and more questionable.
Either way, this is a massive PR disaster for
Verizon. While it’s true that AT&T had it’s own spying scandal, misery
still loves company. It’s in Verizon’s interest to somehow implicate other
carriers in the spying program. If Verizon is, indeed, not the only carrier, I suspect
we’ll be finding out in the near future.
Fuente: techcrunch (PUNTO) com/2013/06/05/report-nsa-secretly-collecting-phone-records-of-all-verizon-calls/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing11%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D323987
