NSA report discloses that the agency tripled its surveillance of Americans in 2017
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3PFVJ)
One effect of the Snowden leaks is that the NSA now makes an annual disclosure of the extent of its domestic surveillance operations; that's how we know that the NSA collected 534 million phone call and text message records (time, date, location, from, to -- but not the content), which more than triples its surveillance takings in 2016. (more")