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27 Jul, 2015

Purges phone records

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The Obama administration announces that the NSA will purge phone records by the beginning of next year. However, there is a possibility that some data may not be completely erased from all records. Source:

The decision comes as a victory for privacy advocates, who worried that the winding down of the mass surveillance program under a reform law enacted earlier this year could have allowed the NSA to continue to access phone records it already had collected