The National Security Agency will restrict access to, and ultimately destroy, millions of US phone records previously collected by the spy agency, the Office of theannounced Monday. The federal law was passed in June ending the NSA’s bulk collection of U.S. telephone records and destroying the data it collected under a controversial global spying program disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The agency didn’t specify when the agency would destroy these metadata records, but noted that the metadata must be retained until the lawsuits around the metadata collection program are ongoing.
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