The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has agreed to stop collecting telephone records placed by Americans to overseas locations. It also agreed to destroy its data base of international calls collected secretly from the 1990s to 2013. (Electronic Frontier Foundation, December 14, 2015, by Mark Rumold)
In August a federal judge ordered the DEA to release details of its secret, unauthorized program to the Human Rights Watch. The order was of note since never before had a federal court allowed discovery into a government mass surveillance program. (AllGov, August 20, 2015, by Noel Brinkerhoff)