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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:47PM (#24921848)
> They do know who you called and when but not tied to your name.

For a state-level actor (or the mobile provider itself or those other corporations to which it sells data for advertising purposes) to identify by name the human being who is the source of phone calls, is trivial in most countries today.

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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by lern_too_spel on Thursday October 29, 2020 @12:14AM (#24927142)
However trivial it may be, it is illegal for them to do so even under their lawyers' interpretation, and Snowden's leaks did not show that they did so.
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