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NSA ends bulk collection of US phone records─── 07:35 Sun, 29 Nov 2015
The US National Security Agency (NSA) will end the daily monitoring of millions of Americans' phone records and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods.
As required by law, the NSA will stop its wide-ranging surveillance programme just before midnight today. The White House said Friday that a new, scaled-back system is expected to be in place by the same time.
The move comes two and a half years after the controversial programme was exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The change, mandated by a law passed six months ago, represents the greatest reduction of US spying capabilities since they expanded dramatically after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Al Jazeera
