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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by dabber on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:26PM (#16999751)
>According to all the documents published so far, the NSA does none of these except monitoring public social media posts.

From the first paragraph of the article linked here:

>The U.S. National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said.

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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by lern_too_spel on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:35PM (#16999791)
That doesn't support any of GGP's statements now, does it? They merely collected the call times and numbers of a tiny fraction of the "billions" of calls placed per day in the US.
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