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Re:NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record ... by Lammy on Sunday May 24, 2020 @10:43AM (#23291833)
"The agency collected “only metadata,” it said, not the content of telephone calls."

Relevant: "Using Metadata to find Paul Revere" (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276083

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Re:NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record ... by dredmorbius on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:38PM (#23356412)
"We Kill People Based on Metadata", General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-base...

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