Why Collection of Phone Metadata Matters

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Here's what Spitz recently wrote in a New York Times op-ed:

... now imagine if you had access to millions of similar data sets. You could easily draw maps, tracing communication and movement. You could see which individuals, families or groups were communicating with one another. You could identify any social group and determine its major actors.

That is precisely why the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the government for collecting the information in the first place, arguing that the phone metadata "gives the government a comprehensive record of our associations and public movements, revealing a wealth of detail about our familial, political, professional, religious, and intimate associations."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-you-can-learn-from-phone-metadata-2013-7#ixzz2YJXOeqiy