Senators introduce a bill that prohibits the bulk
collection of e-mail and phone records of US citizens.
Senators are vexing to clamp down on the activities of
the National Security Agency through a new bill in the US.
The bill would end a loophole for the hindmost door
searches, which allow the government to access the records of American citizens
without a warrant. The government would only be allowed to gather records that
are to or from a suspected terrorist, rather than those that are simply
"about the target."
On Wednesday in the unveiled
Congress, the Intelligence Oversight
and Surveillance Reform Act aimed
at ending the NSA's loose collection of the records of US citizens.
Explicitly, the bill wants to improve
certain sections of the Foreign Intelligence
Services Act (FISA), which the NSA has used to justify
its data gathering.
The bill would also allow companies to a forced
providence of customer information to the government, and hence the freedom to
divulge more details about their roles in the process.
Further, the bill was to strengthen the prohibition
against "reverse targeting," which accesses the records of a
foreigner only as a means to investigate an American who has been communicating
with that foreigner. It would also impose a statute on the use of unlawfully
collected facts introduced by US Senators Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, Richard
Blumenthal, and Rand Paul.
One amendment to FISA would prohibit the bulk collection
of phone records, while another would prevent the bulk gathering of e-mail
records. In the case of phone records, the government would still be able to
get the records of anyone suspected of terrorism or anyone in contact with a
suspected terrorist.
The bill is a reaction to criticism that the NSA's bulk
data snooping unconstitutionally targets all Americans rather than just those
suspected of terrorism.
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