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Internet service providers and telephone companies keep extensive data on their users' contacts (browsing, phone calls, etc). With mobile phones, they also record the user's physical location. They keep these dossiers for a long time: over 30 years, in the case of AT&amp;T. Soon they will even record the user's body activities. It appears that the NSA collects cell phone location data in bulk.