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MAINWAY

MAINWAY is a database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) containing metadata for hundreds of billions of telephone calls made through the largest telephone carriers in the United States, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.

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Internet monitoring

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MAINWAY

Nodes131
Edges130
Triples3
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015267
Components1

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MAINWAY

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MAINWAY → database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency

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Important terminology

nsa 2006 may database court program information records call phone surveillance act verizon intelligence calls law usa today telephone communications

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
MAINWAYis adatabase maintained by the United States' National Security Agency0.90text
wiretapsinstance ofbut also using other intrusive techniques0.80text
microphoneinstance ofbut also using other intrusive techniques0.80text

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