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 ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a National Security Agency program that collected the metadata from billions of phone calls made by Americans was illegal and possibly unconstitutional ...

Bulk collection of metadata didn't seem to help with Paris. I think that (their intelligence failures) is just encouragement for the NSA to spy harder. So they just changed the name of the program, ...