"In 2017, according to a report by the director of national intelligence, the government obtained 534 million phone records from telephone companies"[1]... I wo

"In 2017, according to a report by the director of national intelligence, the government obtained 534 million phone records from telephone companies"[1]... I wouldn't quite say they were smacked down in terms of mass metadata surveillance. They literally shut it down cause they couldn't make the data useful. [1] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nsa-phonerecords-20190515-story.html https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nsa-phonere...