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White House Surveillance Program Collecting ‘Trillions of Domestic Phone Records’

The information includes location data of a target, their alternate numbers, and interestingly, phone numbers of everyone who contacted them.
White House Surveillance Program Collecting ‘Trillions of Domestic Phone Records’
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Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
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11/28/2023|Updated: 11/28/2023
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A White House-backed program in partnership with telecom giant AT&T collects phone call records of Americans and provides law enforcement access to the databases.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has raised “serious concerns about the legality of this surveillance program.”

Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
Reporter
Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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