USA Freedom Act: What happens to data now?
China Daily | Updated: 2015-06-04 07:56
What happens with the phone records collection?
A: It will resume for six months, provided that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders phone companies to turn over the records and that no court stops it under various pending lawsuits. During that period, the National Security Agency will seek to work with providers to come up with a way to quickly query their records against known terrorist phone numbers, pursuant to a court order. It will be able to collect data for all the numbers in contact with the suspect number, and all the numbers in contact with those numbers.
What about the other surveillance provisions that expired?
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