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

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 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 ...

The Senate finally passed the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday, which means that many of the National Security Agency programs revealed by Edward Snowden are no more. The legislation brings many of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the USA FREEDOM Act of 2014, which focuses on telephone record collection and FISA Court reform. While this bill is not a comprehensive solution to overbroad and unconstitutional surveillance ...

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 ...