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The National Security Agency will restrict access to, and ultimately destroy, millions of US phone records previously collected by the spy agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced Monday.
The federal law was passed in June ending the NSA’s bulk collection of U.S. Citizen’s Telephone records and destroying the data it collected under a controversial global spying program disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Section 215 of the Patriot Act legally authorizes the law enforcement agencies to collect "any tangible things" that the government proves are connected or linked to an investigation into any suspected terrorist.
However, the verdict in May ruled that the mass collection of metadata program run by the NSA is Not Authorized by Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
The metadata collection program began shortly after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, but the records have to be destroyed after every five years.
Under this program, the US intelligence agency collected only the data related to the called phone numbers. However, no content of the phone call conversations were recorded by the agency.
You can read the full-article here: http://thehackernews.com/2015/07/nsa-surveillance.html
The National Security Agency will restrict access to, and ultimately destroy, millions of US phone records previously collected by the spy agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced Monday.
The federal law was passed in June ending the NSA’s bulk collection of U.S. Citizen’s Telephone records and destroying the data it collected under a controversial global spying program disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Section 215 of the Patriot Act legally authorizes the law enforcement agencies to collect "any tangible things" that the government proves are connected or linked to an investigation into any suspected terrorist.
However, the verdict in May ruled that the mass collection of metadata program run by the NSA is Not Authorized by Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
The metadata collection program began shortly after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, but the records have to be destroyed after every five years.
Under this program, the US intelligence agency collected only the data related to the called phone numbers. However, no content of the phone call conversations were recorded by the agency.
You can read the full-article here: http://thehackernews.com/2015/07/nsa-surveillance.html
