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The Senate has officially approved of the USA Freedom Act, culminating the National Security Agency’s ability to access Americans’ private phone information. The bill is now on its way to President Obama who has agreed to sign the bill. As a result of the Freedom Act, the government is now required to have a warrant to gain data from specific phone companies.
The debate on whether to limit the government’s bulk collection of citizens’ phone data—previously enacted by the Patriot Act of 2001—first took off after the Edward Snowden scandal. Additional edits to the bill that were made in the Senate may need further review and approval from the House, a factor that some fear will slow down the process to move forward with the new mandates.
Read more about the story here at CNN. For a quick history on the Patriot Act, check out the video below.
Your Smartphone Is Safe: Senate Strikes Down Phone Surveillance was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
