National Security Agency ends phone record and data collection program

Tuesday, March 5, 2019
The National Security Agency has ended a controversial surveillance program that collected data from phone records in the United States.

A Republican congressional official says the program needed to be reauthorized and the end of last year but was not.
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The program monitored calls and texts.

The NSA originally said it did not collect the content of communications.
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However, the agency later admitted that a technical glitch did allow content to be obtained.

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