The NSA phone surveillance program has been in place as part of PRISM from 2008 to 2019 in the USA.
The NSA phone surveillance program to date has cost American tax payers over $100 Million, according to the New York Times.
The program ceased to exist end of 2019 and is no longer in place.
Warrantless surveillance of citizens is unconstitutional - in the USA, in Germany as well as in most democratic countries.
The NSA argued that it needed this kind of information to stop terrorist attacks and keep American people safe.
However, a judge ruled beginning of September 2020 that not [one single terrorist attack had been stopped with the help of the NSA's phone surveillance program.
What comes clear from the examples in the USA and in Europe is that we must end mass surveillance. »