Despite Congress implementing restrictions on the NSA's bulk collection of phone records, the agency still collected over 151 million records of American phone calls in 2016. The FISA court system only authorized the NSA to spy on 42 terrorism suspects in all of 2016, yet a massive number of records were obtained.
These records include phone call "metadata," which includes the phone numbers involved and the duration of calls. Actual content isn't included.
The 2015 Freedom Act was passed to limit the NSA to collecting records on US citizens who may have ties to terrorism. It's difficult to see how a fair implementation of that limit would lead to 151 million records being collected.
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