The NSA is ending a major mass surveillance program. Ending this program will not stop all mass surveillance on Americans.
It appears the FISA Court forced the program to end.
NSA Backs Down on Major Surveillance Program That Captured Americans’ Communications Without a Warrant
The National Security Agency on Friday suddenly announced it is curtailing one of its major surveillance programs. Under pressure from the secret court that oversees its practices, the NSA said its “upstream” program would no longer grab communications directly from the U.S. internet backbone “about” specific foreign targets – only communication to and from those targets.