The NSA phone-spying program exposed by Edward Snowden didn't stop a single terrorist attack, federal judge finds

The ruling contradicts intelligence officials' statements following Edward Snowden's revelation that the NSA was snooping on Americans' phone records.
The Atlantic

The NSA's Phone Metadata Connect-The-Dots Program Only Collects 30 Percent of Calls

The NSA's vaunted cell phone metadata collection program, often defended on the grounds that its comprehensive sweep of information allows the government to uncover unseen connections, only collected ...
The Atlantic

The NSA Will Keep On Collecting Your Telephone Data (At Least) Through March

Good news, surveillance lovers! The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court renewed the NSA's authority to collect metadata on telephone calls in bulk on Friday. Since typically the court has to renew ...
Time

Judge Says NSA Program Likely Unconstitutional

The National Security Agency’s program of collecting massive amounts of data about Americans’ phone calls likely violates the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable searches, a federal judge ...