The National Security Agency says that it began deleting “call detail records” in May after it determined that some of the information provided by telecoms included information that it wasn’t authorized to use. The New York Times says that the number of records is in the “hundreds of millions.”
The agency says that the records date back to 2015, and that it began to delete the records on May 23rd, after realizing the the records were contaminated with additional data that it wasn’t authorized to use — call and text data from people who never connected with people the agency had targeted for surveillance. The agency says that it was “infeasible to identify and isolate properly produced data,” and opted to destroy the records.
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