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A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The program, known as Data Analytical Services (DAS), has been running for more than a decade and allows federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans' calls. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect, but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well. AT&T, the telecom giant, helps run the program and has been paid over $6 million by the White House for its assistance. Senator Wyden has “serious concerns about the legality” of the DAS program and says that the “troubling information” he’s received “would justifiably outrage many Americans.”