NSA: Freedom Act Does Little to Curb Spying
Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government is taking credit for taming beasts of its own creation.In reality, nothing substantial has changed.Under the Patriot Act, the NSA had access to and possessed digital versions of the content of all telephone conversations, emails, and text messages sent between and among all people in America since 2009. Under the USA Freedom Act, it has the same.The USA Freedom Act changes slightly the mechanisms for acquiring this bulk data, but it does not change the amount or nature of the data the NSA acquires.
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