If President Obama follows even half of the recommendations urged by his advisory panel, the National Security Agency would significantly change the way it does business.

The collection of U.S. phone records and the spying on other governments and their citizens would continue. But Americans’ phone records would be held by phone companies, not the NSA, and multiple court orders, rather than just one, could be required before the information could be searched.

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