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by Dystopian 2588 days ago
"In 2017, according to a report by the director of national intelligence, the government obtained 534 million phone records from telephone companies"[1]... I wouldn't quite say they were smacked down in terms of mass metadata surveillance. They literally shut it down cause they couldn't make the data useful.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nsa-phonere...

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Are phone records the same as access to telco routers and infrastructure?