Salon.com > cell phone http://www.salon.com Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:14:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Security expert: All Occupiers’ phones were logged http://www.salon.com/2013/06/06/security_expert_all_occupiers_phones_were_logged/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/06/security_expert_all_occupiers_phones_were_logged/#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13319029 In light of news that every day the entirety of telecom giant Verizon's call system records are handed over to the NSA, news that Occupy Wall Street protest attendees' cellphones were logged should hardly come as a shock. It nonetheless bears noting that cellphone metadata of march and rally participants was likely specifically logged, as security expert Steven Ramdam recently noted. This means that individuals were directly targeted for their engagement with First Amendment-protected activity.

As Privacy SOS noted, the controversial security expert who gave a talk titled "Privacy Is Dead" -- advocating that we "get over it" -- said:

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