A small battle won

Private NSA contractors with open stations of computers connected to cell towers and freeway cell infrastructure.

All manned by young people monitoring the operation of collecting 5 billion of your calls per day.

The details of the huge database of location-tracking; GPS information, and the used strategies in which the NSA uses the information to establish relationships between people, have been released by the Washington Post, which has already cited documents supplied by whistle blower Mr. Edward Snowden and concerned intelligence officials.

  It means that the NSA, through mobile phones, track people anywhere they travel all over the world– including into private homes – or retracing previously traveled tours.

 They have mentioned that, the data can also be used for study patterns of behavior to get personal information and relationships between different users.

 Civil liberties experts of US have said that those cell phone location data contains some of the most intrusive information about people in digital age, leaving a kaleidoscopic footprint of a person’s life and regular works.

Cellphones transmit location data whenever a phone is switched on, irrespective of whether they are operating to make calls or send text messages and emails.

One man is fighting back and winning.

An anonymous reader writes with news that a federal judge ordered the NSA to immediately end its collection of call records associated with a California lawyer and his law firm.

 Reuters reports: "Opponents of mass surveillance cheered the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, who granted an injunction to bar the NSA from collecting the phone metadata of California attorney J.J. Little and his small legal practice.

 Unlike previous rulings against the NSA's program to vacuum up Americans' call data, which was exposed publicly by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013, Leon's opinion does not grant a stay, meaning it will take effect immediately."

 “As with other sort of monitoring activities, the NSA claims that its cell phone location program is targeted at foreigners, and Americans’ information is collected only ‘incidentally,’” said Elizabeth Goitein, the co-director of the BrennanCenter’s Liberty and National Security Program.

 Catherine Crump, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s speech, Privacy and Technology project, had said:

“It is staggering that a location-tracking program on this scale could be implemented without any public discussion, particularly given the considerable number of Americans having their movements recorded by the government.”