USA Freedom Act
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title:
USA Freedom Act
text:
The USA Freedom Act is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015, that restored and modified several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of telecommunication metadata on U.S. citizens by American intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency. It also restores authorization for roving wiretaps and tracking lone wolf terrorists. The title of the act is a ten-letter backronym that stands for Uniting and Str
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description:
2015 U.S. surveillance law
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act
date created:
2014-01-18T20:08:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T16:47:12Z
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