NSA shuts down massive phone surveillance
The U.S. National Security Agency [will end] its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans’ phone records [Sunday 29/11/2015] and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama administration said on Friday.
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It comes two and a half years after the controversial program was exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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Under the Freedom Act, the NSA and law enforcement agencies can no longer collect telephone calling records in bulk in an effort to sniff out suspicious activity. Such records, known as “metadata,” reveal which numbers Americans are calling and what time they place those calls, but not the content of the conversations.
