Timmons 15 Heather Timmons, correspondent June 01, 2015 Quartz The US government can no longer spy on every US citizen at once http://qz.com/416262/the-us-government-can-no-longer-spy-on-every-us-citizen-at-once/
The US government’s ability to collect information on American citizens was substantially curtailed on midnight Sunday, after an extension of the Patriot Act expired before the US Congress passed a replacement bill aimed at reforming it.
What’s expiring: The Patriot Act extension, signed into law in 2011. This includes the controversial Section 215, which, as the ACLU explains it, “allows the [Federal Bureau of Investigation] to force anyone at all—including doctors, libraries, bookstores, universities, and Internet service providers—to turn over records on their clients or customers.” Because of this expiration, the National Security Agency and others can also no longer collect this information, including US citizens’ phone calls, in bulk. In addition, agencies abilities to conduct roving wiretaps, and spy on so-called “lone wolf” terrorists not connected to any organization are curbed.
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