Tag: Surveillance Reform

Access today welcomed the reintroduction of a bipartisan reform bill meant to rein in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of domestic telephone metadata.

Access today announced strong opposition to S. 1035, legislation introduced by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that would extend expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act through 2020.

Letter is a clarion call for meaningful surveillance reform — but now the real work begins.

Yesterday, the USA FREEDOM Act — the bill that would have halted the NSA’s bulk collection of telephony metadata under section 215 of the PATRIOT Act — failed to move forward in the United States Senate.

This week the Senate is expected to vote on the USA FREEDOM Act, a bill that would end one of the worst abuses of the NSA’s surveillance authority. Access urges the Senate to protect privacy and pass the bill.