COMS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: International Mobile Subscriber Identity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 230
• Professor: Cayley Sorochan

Document Summary

Government lying saying that they"re not listening to users through meta data but in fact they are. 2013 telecommunications companies provide info on a daily basis. Metadata: not the content of the call, but all the information that a call did take place. One of the biggest controversies is how much did these companies work with the nsa in the hope that this will make them better in the eyes of the consumer. Snowden direct back door access to the servers. Upstream programs, phone internet metadata, internet back bone, us major connection point. Uk"s intelligence service and nsa knew that there was spying going on. Credit card purchases, texts, phone calls, emails everything is saved. Nov 2, 2016: edward snowden"s talk at mcgill. He argued against people who said, i don"t care because i have nothing to hide .