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by will_pseudonym 3878 days ago
I wonder if they could possibly know that a ton of people called this number after reading this article, and to disregard that data from their graph. :) Obfuscation is really difficult in highly effective surveillance states.
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Ah, but what if the owner wants their phone to be disregarded, and this is their way of baiting the NSA to do so? Now the NSA has no choice but to keep monitoring the phone, because of this possibility!
Not really the point though. The point is that you're essentially volunteering for surveillance and by doing so saying that the arbitrary safe-guard implemented by the NSA still doesn't make them morally justified to do so, or something to that effect.