Saturday, February 8, 2014

White House Starts To Implement NSA Phone Surveillance Changes While Admitting That The NSA Collects Less Than 30% Of All Phone Calls

An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of an iPhone in Berlin, June 7, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski

NSA Is Collecting Less Than 30 Percent Of U.S. Call Data, Officials Say -- Washington Post

The National Security Agency is collecting less than 30 percent of all Americans’ call records because of an inability to keep pace with the explosion in cellphone use, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The disclosure contradicts popular perceptions that the government is sweeping up virtually all domestic phone data. It is also likely to raise questions about the efficacy of a program that is premised on its breadth and depth, on collecting as close to a complete universe of data as possible in order to make sure that clues aren’t missed in counterterrorism investigations.

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NSA Collects 20% or Less of U.S. Call Data -- Wall Street Journal
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NSA, Which Once Claimed It Needed Every Phone Record, Now Claims It Actually Gets Less Than 20% -- Tech Dirt
The NSA's Phone Metadata Connect-The-Dots Program Only Collects 30 Percent of Calls -- The Wire
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Report: NSA bulk metadata program doesn’t cover cellphones -- Ars Technica
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Secret court approves Obama's limits on NSA phone record collection -- Verge
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Obama administration starts to implement changes to NSA phone records program -- Washington Post
Secret court approves new limits on NSA-collected phone records -- Endgadget
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