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| Under the terms of the order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data and the time and duration of all calls |
The order, granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25, asks for all records until July 19, 2013 regardless of whether wrongdoing is suspected.
The data includes the numbers of both parties on the call, location data, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of calls, but not the contents of the calls. The scope of the collection is unlimited, which is extremely unusual, because these sorts of orders usually target individuals or a set of targets.
And here's the top secret part, per Greenwald's document:
It is further ordered that no person shall
disclose to any other person that the FBI or NSA has sought or obtained tangible
things under this Order.
This sort of large scale collection of records happened under the Bush
administration, "but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents
have revealed the continuation of the practice on a massive scale under
President Obama," Glenn
Greenwald writes. The NSA, White House, Department of Justice, and Verizon declined to comment to The Guardian.
Read the full story on The Guardian's website >
