Senators by a 67 to 32 margin approved the USA Freedom Act, which was passed by the House last month. President Obama signed the bill Tuesday night. Three key sections of the Patriot Act anti ...

It extends the expiration of three Patriot Act provisions—Section 215, roving wiretaps and the lone wolf surveillance authority—to December 2019.

The USA Freedom Act extends many parts of the 2001 USA Patriot Act, which expires June 1. The measure's fate in the Senate is less likely. The surveillance issue has sparked "rare bipartisan unity ...

But final passage of the USA Freedom Act will not come until later this week, meaning that three sections of the Patriot Act will expire before senators can take further action. "Tonight begins ...

The Senate has approved the USA Freedom Act, which will alter the way ... The vote comes two days after controversial provisions of the Patriot Act expired because the Senate was unable to ...

That extension expired this past summer, but parts of the extension were renewed for another four years under a new name, the USA Freedom Act. Arguments for the continuation of the Patriot Act ...

Unlike many privacy and civil liberties groups, the ACLU has refrained from endorsing the USA Freedom Act and instead is advocating for allowing the Patriot Act provisions to sunset — i.e., to ...

(Washington, DC) – The United States Congress should swiftly pass the USA Freedom Act to thwart bulk data collection and improve transparency and oversight of surveillance in the US, Human ...

Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, on which the NSA domestic phone data program rests, will expire on June 1 unless Congress acts. In truth, the USA Freedom Act addresses only a small fraction of ...

It includes protections that the USA Patriot Act, which expired midnight ... a warrant to examine Americans’ phone data? No. The Freedom Act allows the agency without a warrant to gain access ...

That is even stupider than the USA PATRIOT Act and sounds like something out of Team America: World Police.) The USA Freedom Act would force the government to ask the Foreign Intelligence ...

Today, a new proposal called the USA FREEDOM Act from Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis ... Sensenbrenner was the lead author of the Patriot Act and now is the chair of the House's Subcommittee on ...