NSA triples collection of US phone records

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NSA triples collection of US phone records
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. The sharp increase from 151 million occurred during the second full year of a new surveillance system established at the spy agency after a ...

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