Correction. They admit they stopped using one technique. What’s the new program and how does it work?
the “new” program is requiring the carriers to maintain X log of meta data and provide the details upon request.
In other words, not an NSA server, but still avilable.
What NSA said doesn’t mean anything. The ability exists. It will be done.
Facebook picture/data archives, the twitterverse., Google, etc.....
Its all hiding in plain sight.