House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @01:54PM from the big-brother-has-his-eye-on-you-just-the-same dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from a story at Reuters that gives a rare bit of good news for the Fourth Amendment: The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would end spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone data, setting up a potential showdown with the U.S. Senate over the program, which expires on June 1. The House voted 338-88 for the USA Freedom Act, which would end the bulk collection and instead give intelligence agencies access to telephone data and other records only when a court finds there is reasonable suspicion about a link to international terrorism.

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"Ends spy agency bulk collection of phone data" by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-13 14:12 · Score: 5, Informative

Have you actually read the text of the bill? The bulk collection of phone data is not only still allowed, they give legal protections and guidelines for monetary compensation to the businesses they order to collect the data.
Oh yeah, and at the very bottom of the bill? They reauthorize another section of the Patriot Act.