A panel of experts appointed by President Obama to review the NSA’s surveillance methods has concluded that the agency’s call-tracking database, hasn’t worked as advertised to protect the country from terrorism and ought to be taken out of the NSA’s control. Instead, the board recommends that phone companies or some other private entity maintain the database instead, and that the NSA should only have access after receiving a court order.

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