https://twitter.com/BreakingNAgency/status/1103699732742983680
A congressional aide hinted that the end of the National Security Agency’s collection of program metadata might be closer than thought — so close, in fact, that if the aide’s account is correct, no new data has been collected over the past six months. But even if the NSA has suspended this particular violation of privacy without legislation, that doesn’t absolve Congress of its responsibly to end authorization. And if the suspension is real, it proves that the program is not as vital as its defenders have claimed.
The program, supposedly authorized first by the PATRIOT Act in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 set off a political firestorm when Edward Snowden revealed its existence in 2013. Since then, it has become a textbook example of government intrusion into the lives of private individuals in the U.S.
In 2015, facing fallout from Snowden’s revelations, Congress passed the U.S.A. Freedom Act, curtailing the authority of the program and limited the number of records that could be collected and required a judge’s permission to retrieve phone and text data…
https://twitter.com/FreedomWorks/status/1103699834618421253
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/its-up-to-congress-to-end-nsas-collection-of-phone-metadata-it-should