Now that Congress passed The USA Freedom Act to end the National Security Agency’s squirrel-like collection of American phone records, the NSA will quit pouring over those records–in six months time.

The NSA’s invasive call tracking program was first exposed in 2013 by Edward Snowden. The program was initiated after the 9/11 attacks to build a database and weed out terrorists, but once the program was unearthed politicians and citizens alike railed against the enormous breach of privacy.

Two years later, the NSA’s controversial program will finally end on Nov. 29 when the agency switches to a new system where phone companies only hand over call timestamps on an as needed basis. In short, the NSA won’t know that you discussed your laundry woes with your mother, but it will know that you talked to your mom for 90 minutes about something.

What will happen to existing records after the NSA ceases its collection is still up in the air. Phone records have reportedly been destroyed after spending five years in the NSA database, but recent records cannot yet be purged because they are evidence in a court case against the NSA.

 

“As soon as possible, NSA will destroy the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata upon expiration of its litigation preservation obligations,” the Office of National Security said in a statement. As comforting as that is, there is so timetable for when this final purge may be.