The NSA has been ordered to destroy phone records it collected illegally, eventually:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced that the "bulk collection" of phone data the NSA illegally collected under Section 215 of the Patriot act will be locked away starting November 29, 2015.
The data will effectively be out of reach from agency employees ad infinitum, effectively making it unusable in anti-terrorism or national security investigations. The only exception will be a three-month period, in which "technical personal" can check the data for the sole purpose of verifying records produced under the new USA Freedom Act.
The NSA is obligated to preserve most of the data until civil litigation involving the program has been resolved. Also reported at The Intercept and The Register.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:41AM
What about the email data? There appears to be far more talk about the phone data and almost none about other issues.
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:03AM
"Lol."
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(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:11AM
Ohhhh! Can we meme this one? please?! I don't care if only a few people ever get the joke...
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:23PM
Personally I like this General Buck Turgidson [guim.co.uk] style image of him. Personally I think Buck was more sane.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:37PM
On this front, the USA has looked like Nazi Germany for quite some time now.
The Gestapo (and even the Stasi) would drool over what the snoops are doing in "The land of the free".
-- gewg_