Recall the "NSA Releases Snowden Email, Says He Raised No Concerns About Spying" (05.29.14)
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/s...
".... the NSA released a statement and a copy of the only email it says it found from Snowden.
That email, the agency says, asked a question about legal authority and hierarchy but did not raise any concerns."
Now its just about FIOA requests finding more or wondering what was held back as as the gov felt it "did not raise any concerns"....
From no emails to one email found back to none under a definition of what "identify" is going to find?
The other option is to only look for a few narrow legal terms that would constitute a formal complaint and not find one.

Depends on the phone used, telco and gov. Just pressing off might be the only option with some tame telco products. Removing a battery might be an option with other telco products.
A gov or mil may wish to map out the path taken by a member of the press A person turns their phone off in the same area and then both phones are turned on again moving away from each other later?
Kind of easy to track the members of the press still covering gov and mil stories in person per city.
If one person left their phone battery in thats a live malware or telco activated mic in real time. Treasure Map would be fun for the office computer, home computer, any devices on the move.

The content can be sorted, saved once a person is found to be interesting. The ip, MAC and other data around all network use is the Treasure Map prize.
What network data a business, university or household sends can be looked at in real time for keywords, voice prints or people been tracked.
Treasure Map provides a much better/deeper understanding of the local network than just ending at an .edu or .com with a lot of users per day on different networks.
Tame software, tame hardware, junk weak crypto, the tame admin staff member "invited" into a gov public private security partnership could open a lot of the networks expected to be difficult.
That laptop might drift from a dorm room to free wifi to a home to friends house. A lot of different networks but thanks to public private partnerships not every network is difficult anymore.

Average nations internet service providers can keep ip, time and user name for a few years at a low cost?
Average phone companies can keep all details on all calls connected over many years.
Nations have the data split in real time, the ip, get help from the tame telcos and fully understand the internet crypto as used.
Collect everything surrounding all message, keywords and usage, save and sort. Find people been tracked connecting to new people, trace the hops and then add in all the new people to trace.
Storage is now cheap, cpu speed is cheap to sort hops, compression keeps pace over years.
Voice prints, keywords, phone numbers called all worked well in the past but no need to be so selective with the data around a call, message, fax, email, chat, web 2.0 use.
eg voice print information will will ensure any call connected with that person globally is kept.
A new person or people already in the system? Keyword use look into every message so all network users can be sorted, added.
1960's tech for calls made, numbers used. Voice prints are not new. Massive domestic surveillance exposed in 1970's has been in news a lot.

Nations can just use their number stations. One time pads and decades of very safe trusted sleeper agents are promoted.
Signals gathering expects the world to be using this generations ww2 ENIGMA like network over decades - tame telco crypto networks and internet will bring back lots of useful data as all other nations are not careful.
The interview with whistleblower William Binney: 'The NSA's main motives: power and money' (19.08.2014)
http://www.dw.de/binney-the-ns...
"Money. It takes a lot of money, you have to build up Bluffdale [the location of the NSA's data storage center, in Utah] to store all the data. If you collect all the data, you've got to store it, you have to hire more people to analyze it, you have to hire more contractors, managers to manage the flow. You have to start a big data initiative. It's an empire. Look at what they've built!"
Face to face, holidays, dual citizens, smart people invited in by rushed digital clearances. Clearances issued for a contractor to bring in expert staff.
Other nations have no need for their own to use the "Treasure Mapped" internet in any interesting ways.

The good news is people meeting the press are more aware of having their cell phone on or powered and with them.
The press can now understand that turning off a phone can be seen as getting ready to meet a contact.
Anyone in the same area at the same time who turns off their phone might be that contact. Kind of a short list :)
The press is more aware of been under constant surveillance.
Treasure Map just adds to the collect it all idea and that digital entry or exit points can be fully reconstructed or are always been tracked.
Thats a lot of expensive effort to put into signals intelligence considering what most skilled nations fully understood about global telephone and computer networks going back over decades.

Looking at where all data enters and exits the internet (www or the World Wide Wiretap)
Wifi, VPN, implanted OS or hardware devices, pubic, private, down to MAC address as expected.
Sorting by Infected hosts or Tor router?
All part of collect it all :)

Slashdot users may recall news from 2008 "Let’s Monitor All P2P" (April 17, 2008)
http://www.dailytech.com/Senat...
"Agents then track the offender on a “daily” basis, identifying them by their IP address and, in some cases, a “unique serial number” sourced from offender’s computer."
"Investigators have recorded almost 1.3 million of the unique serial numbers thus far, with about half of them residing in the United States – and that number is steadily increasing each month due to “extensive capturing” conducted since October 2005."

to just looking at where all data enters and exits the internet (www or the World Wide Wiretap)
Wifi, VPN, implanted OS or hardware devices, pubic, private, down to MAC address as expected.
Infected hosts?
All part of collect it all :)

Mil and gov have two options:
The classic: dont connect the network with the files on during the day of the search.
Enter a few narrowly defined legal terms and get no results back from a total network search.
Other options can be water damage to files, loss due the hardware issues, a computer crashed... the selection of operating systems understood to totally reuse very limited backup storage.

Recall the "NSA Releases Snowden Email, Says He Raised No Concerns About Spying" (05.29.14)
".... the NSA released a statement and a copy of the only email it says it found from Snowden.
That email, the agency says, asked a question about legal authority and hierarchy but did not raise any concerns."
Now its just about FIOA requests finding more or wondering what was held back as as the gov felt it "did not raise any concerns"....
From no emails to one email found back to none under a definition of what identify is felt to find?

That has been going on for many, many years. Every file of interest to law enforcement globally is logged and tracked over many different kinds of networks, p2p like networks in real time.
All users moving any known file have unique data about their network and computers used (beyond MAC, ip) recorded as the file is networked.
The US gov could have looked at all networks and then sorted for gov and mil workers legally. Or had the mil sort for on base networking connections on a base or mil network.
Or looked at gov/mil issued computer hardware, software and for network misuse on mil sites.
Instead the US mil collected all and then tried to sort out all people not part of any mil base.... or gov....

Re 'change in our freedoms?"
"It takes a lot of money, you have to build up Bluffdale [the location of the NSA's data storage center, in Utah] to store all the data. If you collect all the data, you've got to store it, you have to hire more people to analyze it, you have to hire more contractors, managers to manage the flow. You have to start a big data initiative. It's an empire. Look at what they've built!"
Binney: 'The NSA's main motives: power and money'
http://www.dw.de/binney-the-ns... (9.08.2014)

Signals intelligence was to "collect it all" and then sort. The next step was some lock box law for phone records to get around parallel construction in open US courts.
The UK understood if people know about signals intelligence they can move away from telco products.
The US seems to hope that all people will enjoy the freedom of buying and using that next tame consumer grade telco product.