Wednesday, 25 March 2015

US to stop collecting bulk phone data if Congress lets law expire

US to stop collecting bulk phone data if Congress lets law expire


US intelligence agencies in June will stop bulk collection of data documenting calls by US telephone subscribers, unless Congress extends a law authorising the spying, US officials said on Monday. The disclosure that the National Security Agency was collecting metadata generated by domestic telephone users was one of the most controversial revelations made by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden nearly two years ago.

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