NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance program by Sunday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans’ phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama administration said on Friday. An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of a phone in Berlin, June 7, 2013. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczyns