NSA's bulk phone record collection to end on June 1, as Congress deadlocked on extending the Patriot

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[url]http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/23/nsa-bulk-phone-records-collection-usa-freedom-act-senate[/url]
[quote]Even as the Senate remains at an impasse over the future of US domestic surveillance powers, the National Security Agency will be legally unable to collect US phone records in bulk by the time Congress returns from its Memorial Day vacation.

The administration, as suggested in a memo it sent Congress on Wednesday, declined to ask a secret surveillance court for another 90-day extension of the order necessary to collect US phone metadata in bulk. The filing deadline was Friday, hours before the Senate failed to come to terms on a bill that would have formally repealed the NSA domestic surveillance program.

“We did not file an application for reauthorization,” an administration official confirmed to the Guardian on Saturday.

The administration decision ensures that beginning at 5pm ET on 1 June, for the first time since October 2001 the NSA will no longer collect en masse Americans’ phone records.[/quote]

[url]http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/will-congress-let-the-spying-stop/393995/[/url]
[quote]On June 1, the spying stops.

Not all of it, of course, but after the stroke of midnight on that Monday morning the National Security Agency must halt some of the spying programs it launched in the months and years after September 11, 2001. And not because it wants to, either, but because several key provisions of the Patriot Act will expire without congressional action, and lawmakers can’t agree on how much of the surveillance state to keep in place. (June 1 is, of course, still more than a week away, but much like the objects in car mirrors, deadlines in Congress are usually closer than they appear.)[/quote]

Many provisions of the Patriot Act on June 1. The USA Freedom Act would extend that with a few changes and reforms, while other bills would extend it without change and some lawmakers want it to end entirely. These groups are deadlocked, and the Senate is now out of session until May 31 while the House is out of session until June 1 - the day AFTER the Act will expire. This is the closest the Patriot Act has ever come to expiring.

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Ok, let it expire.

Please.

No emergency sessions or new days either.

Don't do your job for this one time congress.

They are going to make it happen later aren't they :(

[Unknown]

It seems even if they renew the bill, it won't give anywhere near as much blank authorization, which is a step in the right direction.

[mcgrath618]

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[tau]

[QUOTE=mcgrath618;47788598]Yay I can safely begin to torrent things again on my birthday :v:[/QUOTE]

Linux has always been a safe haven, though?

[Saxon]

[QUOTE=mcgrath618;47788598]Yay I can safely begin to torrent things again on my birthday :v:[/QUOTE]

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[Impact1986]

[QUOTE=Saxon;47788866]Are you torrenting schematics to build a dity bomb for ISIS? They don't care about your linux distros[/QUOTE]

I already made a Dirty Bomb for Isis, but she doesn't like the Red Bull in it at all