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Their method to gleaning info is simple: They gleaned 33,688 unique numbers from the call records of 546 study participants, and cross-referenced them with Yelp and Google Places. With that work alone, they were able to identify 6,107 (18 percent) of those numbers.The NSA has offered a number of factual defenses for its phone metadata program. They don’t appear to hold up.
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