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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...shut-2019.html
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The U.S. government may shut down the controversial phone surveillance program that was exposed by Edward J. Snowden in 2013.
The PRISM program annually collects hundreds of millions of telephone records such as calls and texts, including those belonging to American users.
But now the program, run by the National Security Agency, is considering cutting the program as it lacks operational value and hasn't been used for the past six months.
Under the new program the number of phone records collected by the NSA was slashed from billions a day to a few hundred million a year, according to Engadget.
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