Your Phone Data Can Become Part of a Kill Chain

Part 1 of 2: How governments turn everyday metadata into surveillance kill chains. By Sterlin Lujan, Advocates for Self-Government We kill people based on metadata. In 2014, former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden uttered these words with a straight face. He was not being apologetic but rather bragging about his agency’s capabilities. His comment admits a difficult truth about why governments upgrade their surveillance apparatus. They seek to spy on their population, but the ability to k