It doesn't appear to be easy to support the USA Freedom Act. The Act's full real name is the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-Collection ...

It extends the expiration of three Patriot Act provisions—Section 215, roving wiretaps and the lone wolf surveillance authority—to December 2019.

It underscores the crying need for NSA reform. But as the article below argues, passing the USA Freedom Act will only be a first step on that path. On April 30, the House Judiciary Committee ...

Senators by a 67 to 32 margin approved the USA Freedom Act, which was passed by the House last month. President Obama signed the bill Tuesday night. Three key sections of the Patriot Act anti ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed into law the USA Freedom Act, which extends three expiring surveillance provisions of the 9/11-era USA Patriot Act. It also overhauls the most ...

It took more than a year to hammer out the compromise that is the USA Freedom Act. Yet, last week, the legislation failed in the Senate for a second time. Now the act’s fate – and the future ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday that senators would vote on the bipartisan USA Freedom Act "as soon as we can." Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr ...

The Senate has approved the USA Freedom Act, which will alter the way U.S. agencies conduct surveillance and gather data. A final vote on the bill came late Tuesday afternoon, after amendments to ...

Here are the five major IT initiatives lawmakers failed to act upon before skipping town. The Federal… The USA Freedom Act isn’t the only bill making its way through the legislative process on Capitol ...

To be clear, the bill that passed yesterday is not as strong as we wanted. It is markedly weaker than the original version of the USA Freedom Act that the ACLU first supported in 2013, which itself ...

The Senate has now turned to considering the USA Freedom Act, legislation intended to reform the NSA's domestic surveillance program. The measure passed the House of Representatives with a vote of ...

to introduce the USA Freedom Act. This legislation will, among other things, rein in the dragnet collection of data by the NSA. It will end the bulk collection of Americans’ communication ...