Posted on 11/28/2015 12:32:53 AM PST by dennisw
The move, mandated by a law passed six months ago, represents the greatest reduction of U.S. spying capabilities since they expanded dramatically after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Under the Freedom Act, the NSA and law enforcement agencies can no longer collect telephone-calling records in bulk in an effort to sniff out suspicious activity.
Such records, known as 'metadata,' reveal which numbers Americans are calling and what time they place those calls, but not the content of the conversations.
Instead analysts must now get a court order to ask telecommunications companies like Verizon Communications to enable monitoring of call records of specific people or groups for up to six months.
The U.S. National Security Agency will end its broad surveillance of Americans' phone records The NSA will replace the program with more tightly targeted methods The move comes two-and-a-half years after the program was exposed by Edward Snowden The program revealed who Americans were calling and when - but not the content of the calls
The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans' phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama administration said on Friday.
As required by law, the NSA will end its wide-ranging surveillance program by 11:59pm. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday) and expects to have the new, scaled-back system in place by then, the White House said.
The transition is a long-awaited victory for privacy advocates and tech companies wary of broad government surveillance at a time when national security concerns are heightened in the wake of the Paris attacks earlier this month.
It comes two and a half years after the controversial program was exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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Good new for ya hosers!
It never really bothered me. My phone calls are pretty boring - my (now deceased) mother (who would call me 5 or 6 times a day) and my inlaws and occasionally one of my tenants.
My guess, Sundays only...ha.
I think that they’ve already done that shutting down thing twice
Once again, thank you to the UK for giving us our news.
Six months after it is ruled illegal. Kinda like giving a murderer a half a year to break the habit. Heaven forbid you are a nickel short or a day late on your income taxes, even if they are unconstitutional.
Our Goobermint is a sad joke these days.
Sure.
Is this why Person of Interest is not broadcasting new shows?
Michael Savage? Mark Levin?
So they already have their lists...
NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance program on Sunday-two and a half years after it was exposed.
NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance...
Hahahahahahaha....
Oh, that’s rich. Good one.
We need to credit Edward Snowden for exposing this Big Brother snooping.
So, having your Fourth Amendment right routinely violated is no big deal?
If we had better control over our borders and did a much better job
of who we allowed in this country, we would not need phone tracking.
The phone tracking is a lazy way to follow terrorists in this country,
because we fail at the borders and visa’s.
Think you're a good citizen and not violating any laws? You'd be mistaken. If the government wants you out of the way, you're guilty of something. It's just a matter of collecting enough info on you to find out.
Why would the Fed do this? Power.
http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx
Yes, good news.
Let them stop snooping on all the citizens of the country and instead—if they are really serious about catching terrorists—listen in on all the mohammeds and abduls.
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