CTH: In the United States we have the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA collects all available metadata on almost all electronic devices worldwide that can be reached. Access to that database underpins the “Fourth Branch of Government,” the most powerful branch, the U.S. Intelligence Branch.
In addition to a global scraping of metadata, the NSA also collects the domestic private information of all Americans. This was the essential background story that NSA Contractor Edward Snowden broke several years ago. We now know this to be an accepted fact.
The United States internal political debate shifted from ‘should they do this’ to ‘how can we manage the people who do this‘?
The results over the last ten years of trying to manage the exploitation of this database have been a case study in failure. more here
Take this story with many grains of salt. The group that released this information is a Soros funded left wing propaganda operation that targets Israel daily. There is no verification of any of their claims. Who is using the supposed technology and what they are really using it for is suspect at best.
It’s all being recorded all the time.
You can’t get a COT situation in the local telco without holding a TS clearance, these days. Every COT opening I’ve seen in the last 2 years required TS.
I guess it’s because in the old days “Security” put tags on tapped lines and anybody who walked in could read them.
They are probably smarter than that, now.
You kniw what they say: In the land of the blind, the five-eyed man is king. Or something like that.
I had multiple troubles with the telephone of the man who used to own Crown Books, and Trak Auto.
“I can make a call any time, but I keep getting calls that make no sense.”
“Do the callers speak Italian?”
“How the hell…?”
I used to think conspiracy theories were for jaggoff asswipes.
But there’s no way that shit was an accident. The odds are in the millions/billions. They can pretend it was an accident the first time. They can pretend it was an accident the second time. Even the second time was reasonable considering the dipshits I worked with.