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The Senate has passed the USA Freedom Act, which would resurrect a more restrained version of government surveillance powers. The USA Freedom Act was created to rein in Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which had allowed the government to (among other things) collect huge swathes of phone records from companies like Verizon. A version of the USA Freedom Act was passed by the House of Representatives in May, but the Senate been unable to pass it until now, one day after Section 215 expired. This time, the bill passed with a vote of 67 for to 32 against.
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Senate passes NSA surveillance reform bill http://www.danieluk.net/news/senate-passes-nsa-surveillance-reform-bill/ #Phone
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