The USA Freedom Act, a bill meant to end NSA surveillance of phone records, has passed the House of Representatives. After several rounds of amendment and debate over the past weeks, the House passed it by a margin of 303 to 121, putting the ball in the Senates court. The first anti-NSA surveillance bill to be passed since the first classified documents leaked last year, the USA Freedom Act requires the NSA to leave phone records in the hands of telephone companies for 18 months, making searches for specific terms only after getting court approval, instead of collecting them in bulk and storing them for years. The USA Freedom Act passed the Judiciary and Intelligence committees earlier this month, but only after revisions that dampened enthusiasm among reform advocates.
House of Representatives passes ‘gutted’ NSA surveillance reform
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