"The Drug Enforcement Administration secretly collected data in bulk about Americans’ purchases of money-counting machines — and took steps to hide the effort from defendants and courts — before quietly shuttering the program in 2013 amid the uproar over the disclosures by the National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, an inspector general report found."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/dea-money-counter-records.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/dea-money-counter-records.html