What Do the New Spy Rules Mean For Me?

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): Congratulations. The National Security Agency will probably not collect any record that you called your Aunt Matilda at 7:52 p.m. on Sunday evening to ask for her meatloaf recipe. And your phone call to the school nurse this morning? No record of that either.

For millions of Americans, the NSA’s bulk telephone records program that expired Sunday at 7:44 p.m. might not feel like a major change. But that’s because the NSA left few fingerprints that the once-classified program even existed until former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s disclosures in 2013.

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