Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Report: NSA collected bulk records of telephone calls in 2016, despite law change

Nowadays, It is hard to neglect the conspiracy theories that occasionally emerge in the public space. And it is not just because all of those movies and books discussing Big Brother-style themes. Today, an official document brings us back to the topic. According to a report released Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Agency (NSA) collected millions of phone records in 2016, despite a 2015 legislation designed by the Congress to limit the agency's ability to get bulk records of telephone calls.

The report on data collection is the first ...

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