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NSA tripled its phone record collection in 2017

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The NSA retired its old surveillance program that indiscriminately inhaled billions of phone logs a day back in 2015, but that doesnt meant its no longer collecting call data. According to a transparency report (PDF) released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the agency got its hands on 534 million call and text records from telecommunications companies like AT&T and Verizon in 2017. Thats over three times the number (151 million) it collected in 2016, whi……
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