{"id":1965,"date":"2006-05-11T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T14:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/phone_records\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T14:26:52","slug":"phone_records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/phone_records\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word is out that the NSA is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm\">keeping track of phone calls<\/a>.  Presumably, it&#8217;s easier to do this here than over there.  And who&#8217;s to know?  We might all be al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&#038;T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told <em>USA TODAY<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans &#8212; most of whom aren&#8217;t suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article suggests that the carrier Qwest was not linked in like some of the other telecommunications companies.  But at this point, do we have any reason to believe that the government <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> tracking <em>all<\/em> phone calls?<br \/>\nOh, and I&#8217;d throw all the other digital forms of communication into the mix too: text messages, e-mails, whatever.  I think it&#8217;s safe to assume Big Brother can monitor all common forms of communication.  The revelations thus far have only been part of the iceberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/phone_records\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Phone Records\"><p>Word is out that the NSA is keeping track of phone calls. Presumably, it&#8217;s easier to do this here than over there. And who&#8217;s to know? We might all be al Qaeda. The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&#038;T, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}