The US
National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls
and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered
in 2016, a US intelligence agency report released on Friday said.
The
sharp increase from 151 million occurred during the second full year
of a new surveillance system established at the spy agency after US
lawmakers passed a law in 2015 that sought to limit its ability to
collect such records in bulk. The records collected include the
numbers and time of a call or text message, but not their content.
The
records collected include the numbers and time of a call or text
message, but not their content.
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