Bulk collection of US phone records
EstablishedConfirmed as fact in the official record
The claim
The US government was said to be collecting its own citizens' telephone records in bulk.
Where it started
Press reports raised the question in 2006. In 2013 an original court order was published and the programme's existence became a matter of record.
Where it stands
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board confirmed the bulk metadata programme in a 2014 report and found its legal basis weak. In 2015 the Second Circuit held that the collection exceeded what the governing statute allowed, and a statutory change that year altered the programme.
Primary sources
- 미국 사생활 및 시민자유 감독위원회 보고서pclob.govOfficial source
checked 2026-09-07
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