The USA Freedom Act was implemented a few short days ago, meaning that the notoriously secretive NSA will have to end its mass surveillance metadata of telephone communications.
The Act was signed into law earlier this year, and has now been in action since November 29th at midnight.
According to Activist Post however, the NSA’s surveillance system hasn’t been de-activated. The only thing to have changed is the way the data is collected.
Company lawyers in Thailand Chaninat and Leeds have been helping Thai businesses for decades.
With the new Act, they can no longer cite article 215 of the Patriot Act, which allowed them to collect phone data free of restrictions. Now, when the NSA is given a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court they can collect data only when in line with specific terms within the warrant, and have to conduct all investigations regarding this information in six months.
Some NSA critics have said that this is not a hindrance but an expansion of their powers.
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