(January 29, 2015)
You may have heard that the Patriot Act is set to expire soon. That’s not quite the case. The Patriot Act was a large bill, as were the reauthorizations that followed in 2005 and 2006. Not all of it sunsets. But three provisions do expire on June 1st: Section 215, the "Lone Wolf provision," and the "roving wiretap" provision.
All of these sections are concerning, but Section 215 takes the cake. It’s the authority that the NSA, with the FBI’s help, has interpreted to allow the U.S. government to vacuum up the call records of millions of innocent people.
The article includes information about how you can contact your representative to state your case for or against the NSA legally monitoring ALL of your (supposedly) private electronic communications.
1 comment:
I bet it helps justify their huge budgets.
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