We are under surveillance
A giant database with the exact location of 12 million phones over several months has been exposed in the press. The case raises many doubts and one single certainty: we are being watched.
Edward Snowden exposed the reprehensible mass surveillance of citizens by the US authorities. But new information shows that private companies are doing the same, with no scrutiny of any kind. Worse: with no legal mechanism to stop them.
This Friday, The New York Times finally served up an investigation it had been cooking for months. Two journalists obtained a huge database with 50 billion entries, covering the GPS locations of 12 million phones belonging to American citizens. It is the largest and most sensitive leak of its kind ever exposed in the press.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 20 December 2019.