Deep State

The NSA Managed to Collect 500 Million US Call Records in 2017 Despite Targeting Just 40 People

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In the first full year of the Trump administration, the National Security Agency really went all out in efforts to surveil Americans. According to a new report released Friday, the agency sucked up more than 534 million US phone records in 2017, three times the amount it collected in 2016.

— Read on gizmodo.com/the-nsa-managed-to-collect-500-million-us-call-records-1825789394

Overkill

Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records: official report | Reuters

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The U.S. National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/spy-agency-nsa-collected-500-million-u-s-call-records-in-2017-a-sharp-rise-official-report-idUSKBN1I52FR