House Passes USA Freedom Act to Curb NSA Spying | WIRED
IN A LANDSLIDE move today, the House voted to pass the USA Freedom Act, which would effectively shut down portions of the NSA?s controversial domestic spying program in their current form.
The bill, passed overwhelmingly by a vote of 338 to 88, would put an end to the government?s bulk collection of phone records from U.S. telecoms?a program first uncovered by USA Today in 2006 and re-exposed in 2013 by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The bill instead calls for records to be retained by telecoms and forces the NSA to obtain court orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to gain access to them. It also requires the agency to use specific search terms to narrow its access to only relevant records.
crockett, what are your thoughts on this?