White House: NSA bulk phone-data collection is over

The White House has formally announced that the NSA’s program of collecting American phone records in bulk will finally come to an end. “I understand they have started winding down the program,” White House Press Secretary Seth Earnest said in his press briefing on Tuesday. The writing was on the wall for the phone metadata program, the very first one to come from former NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s trove of leaked files.
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