The White House announced Friday evening on the intelligence community’s official Tumblr that the NSA will officially be shutting down its bulk phone surveillance program by Sunday, November 29. The end of the vast surveillance program comes as a result of the USA Freedom Act passed by Congress back in June. The law put an end to the bulk phone data collection in an effort to sniff out suspicious activity. Instead, the agencies can request the records from telecom companies to enable monitoring of call records of specific people for up to 6 months if needed in terrorism investigations.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/nsa-phone-surveillance.html