Threatpost:The House Judiciary Committee has added a variety of new language to a bill that would rein in much of the government’s surveillance operations as permitted under the USA PATRIOT Act. While some of the revisions have received praise, certain phrases repeated throughout the bill have drawn negative attention for their lack of clarity or definition.
First made public in late October of last year, the USA FREEDOM Act was designed to counteract “the dragnet collection of data by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies, increase transparency of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), provide businesses the ability to release information regarding Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests, and create an independent constitutional advocate to argue cases before the FISC.”
