The Washington Post reported that the NSA is collecting nearly 5 billion records a day worldwide related to mobile phone location. Citing documents revealed by Edward Snowden, the Washington Post says that data on hundreds of millions of devices is being collected from mobile networks globally.
Washington Post: NSA Tracking Cell Phone Locations
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Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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