{"id":10231,"date":"2014-01-17T14:24:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:25:28","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10231","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Stone: NSA metadata program captures small fraction of calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/under-the-radar\/?ml=bl_jg\">Stone: NSA metadata program captures small fraction of calls<\/a> by Josh Gerstein:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contrary to public perceptions, the National Security Agency&#8217;s controversial program to collect information on phone calls to, from and within the U.S., gathers such metadata on only a small percentage of U.S. telephone traffic, a member of President Barack Obama&#8217;s surveillance review group said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, the NSA collects a very small percentage of our phone logs,&#8221; University of Chicago Professor Geoffrey Stone said during a symposium sponsored by the advocacy group Public Citizen. &#8220;The numbers it collects are effectively randomly collected\u2026They do it by service provider. If you happen to use a service provider who participates in their program, your number might get picked up. If you use another company, your number won&#8217;t get picked up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}