How ‘cell tower dumps’ caught the High Country Bandits — and why it matters

I’d argue this is a prime example of when metadata is used correctly. If the other nearly 150,000 phone numbers were never investigated and the records were deleted once the feds found their guys, any invasion of privacy is only theoretical. There’s a big difference between this and GPS-tracking, or what the NSA is doing.

Story posted at: arstechnica.com

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