“…… a surveillance program that has collected more than a billion records of Americans…”

“When you have a surveillance program that has collected more than a billion records of Americans — some of them without legal authorization, and all of them without any significant benefit — it’s a no-brainer that the program should be terminated,” she said. “She” was Elizabeth Goitein, a privacy advocate and co-director of the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.**************

In 2015, following the 2013 Edward Snowden revelations that outlined the NSA’s mass data collection practices, Congress put in place measures to curtail the government’s surveillance powers under the USA Freedom Act. This required federal agencies to seek court orders on a case-by-case basis if they needed to obtain data from telecoms firms.

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