NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more

An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now?

The NSA's mass-logging of people's phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad - a surveillance program introduced after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks - is set to end as it's no longer worth the hassle."