USA FREEDOM Act
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The USA FREEDOM Act, passed in 2015, replaced the USA PATRIOT Act and aimed to reform the U.S. government's bulk collection of telephone and Internet data. This change was largely a response to revelations in 2013 about the extent of government surveillance programs. The USA FREEDOM Act requires the government to make public requests to the FISA Court to access such data, thereby curtailing its previous broad authority. The USA PATRIOT Act, enacted after the September 11, 2001, attacks, had significantly expanded the surveillance and search powers of federal agencies. Critics argued that certain provisions of the PATRIOT Act infringed upon privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment and First Amendment freedoms.1
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USA PATRIOT ActReauthorizations…2015, Obama signed the Senate-approved USA FREEDOM (Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring) Act into law, which replaced the USA PATRIOT Act and curtailed the government’s authority to collect data. This revision was largely in response to Edward Snowden’s exposure in 2013 of…
Read More…2015, Obama signed the Senate-approved USA FREEDOM (Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring) Act into law, which replaced the USA PATRIOT Act and curtailed the government’s authority to collect data. This revision was largely in response to Edward Snowden’s exposure in 2013 of…
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