The U.s. Senate has a law that the large-scale collection of telecommetadata by the NSA had accordingly not adopted. The bill received wide support by, among other tech and NSA-president himself, but shrugged a little.
Although voted 58 Senaatleden for and 42 against, but the USA Freedom Act had the 60-votes necessary in order to be accepted, writes Ars Technica. Of the 42 votes against were 41 coming from Republicans. New initiatives to the practices of the NSA in check go the in the coming years are also not likely to pick up: after January 1, the Republicans in both the House of Representatives and in the Senate a majority.
The USA Freedom Act had put an end to the sleepnetmethode for the collection of telephony metadata. In addition, the law for special privacy advocate to install on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which requests from the FBI and the NSA for information to collect treats.
The USA Freedom Act had great support in tech as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Apple, which on Tuesday called on the bill. Also the chairman of the NSA itself had expressed its support. However, there were also opponents under burgerrechtenbewegingen and other privacyvoorvechters, who found that, for example, the definition of the data that the government would be allowed to amass too far stretched.
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