Time to hang up the NSA’s phone records program

The USA Freedom Act was only a partial victory for privacy rights, however. It did ensure that the government itself wouldn’t gather and possess phone records. But privacy is also at risk when such records are retained by a company but are still subject to searches by the government. In 2017, according to a report by the director of national intelligence, the government obtained 534 million phone records from telephone companies.

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