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Congress Passes Surveillance Law Requiring Court Order to Spy on Communications
- Reuters, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 10:21 AM
The U.S. Senate passed legislation to reform the government's digital surveillance program sending it on for President Obama to sign into law. The USA Freedom Act requires companies including Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc,to collect and store telephone records for filing purposes. However, instead of feeding this data to U.S. intelligence, government agencies must provide a government request approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
