New privacy bill aims at reforming FISA and the Patriot Act
June 25, 2013
New legislation aims to reform the Patriot and FISA Amendments Acts to apply greater oversight and control to the government's surveillance programs.
The bill, the FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013, comes following dramatic revelations about how the National Security Agency collects certain types of data about U.S. residents. One surveillance program of concern is Prism, an NSA data collection program that supposedly accesses the servers at Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and other tech companies to mine people's personal data like emails and photos. Another is a phone call metadata collection program.
New privacy bill aims at reforming FISA and the Patriot Act