NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama

Found on The Guardian on Thursday, 27 June 2013
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The documents indicate that under the program, launched in 2001, a federal judge sitting on the secret surveillance panel called the Fisa court would approve a bulk collection order for internet metadata "every 90 days".

But while that specific program has ended, additional secret NSA documents seen by the Guardian show that some collection of Americans' online records continues today.

Not too many weeks ago, people and politicans were concerned that some third world dictators would spy on their citizens too much and abuse the gathered information. Who would have thought that the US and UK were far ahead already for more than a decade?