WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting some five billion records a day on the location of mobile phones around the world, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing documents from American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
The information is added to a gigantic database that shows the locations of “at least hundreds of millions of cell phones” worldwide, a stunning revelation that suggests the eavesdropping agency has created a mass surveillance tool, according to the Post report.
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