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NSA to destroy millions of Americansâ€™ phone records

28 July 2015 21:59 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The agency’s bulk collection program garnered international attention after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden unveiled the intelligence gathering in 2013, APA reports quoting The Associated Press.

In what has become an ongoing struggle to maintain Americans’ privacy rights in national security measures, the National Security Agency (NSA) has agreed to destroy millions of Americans’ phone records collected under its contentious surveillance program, the Associated Press reports.

The Bush administration created the bulk collection program under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. But it garnered international attention after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden unveiled the large-scale intelligence gathering effort in 2013.