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FISA Ammendment to Allow Surveillance on International Emails Approved Through 2018
- Mashable, Wednesday, January 2, 2013 3:36 PM
The FISA Amendments Act, which allows the government to monitor American citizens' correspondence with foreign citizens when terrorism is suspected, was extended for five more years by the senate on Friday. The Act includes electronic communications such as email and phone calls in its purview and is charged by critics as allowing government agencies to amass an enormous database on citizens' activities in the name of counter-terrorism.
