It Costs The NSA Almost Nothing To Tap Your Mobile Phone [INFOGRAPHIC]

15 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone in Crime, Politics

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The Snowden leaks of 2013 revealed the frightening and possibly abusive global capabilities of the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA). But you have nothing to worry about as a a good guy, right? Wrong. A fairly disturbing new paper in the Yale Law Journal illustrates how cheap it is for the NSA to track an individual.

Now, a US investigative reporter named Ashkan Soltani has, in partnership with lawyer Kevin Bankston has published an academic paper in the the Yale Law Journal detailing the minuscule cost of pinpoint individual tracking. The cost has become so negligible that even if the NSA has no reason to track you as a private citizen, they might as well, just to keep tabs.

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[Source : FastCompany]

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