The article starts out perfectly: The NSA unfortunately has a long history of violating privacy rules.
Mostly, it was “we don’t care.”
What if NSA employees were held to the same legal consequences as corporate employees are?
NSA deletes hundreds of millions of call records over privacy violations
The deletions began on May 23rd. It’s not certain when the purge ends, but this is all metadata, not the content of the calls and messages themselves. A spokesperson also told the NYT that it didn’t include location data, as the Freedom Act doesn’t allow gathering that information under this collection system.