NSA pushes to retain phone records for longer to use against privacy lawsuits — RT USA

NSA pushes to retain phone records for longer to use against privacy lawsuits — RT USA:

The Obama administration has filed a request with a special court with the hope of convincing judges to give the US National Security Agency permission to keep millions of American phone records for a longer period of time than previously allowed.

The US Department of Justice is known to have been considering such a strategy, which the Wall Street Journal reports will widen the NSA’s database of phone data by not deleting calls older than five years old, the long-held NSA policy.

Now, though, the Justice Department asserts that it needs to keep the records for longer than five years so they can be used as to defend against lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Senator Rand Paul, and others.