The US Senate failed to pass the bill extending the legal authority of the country's intelligence services, such as the National Security Service (NSA), to collect mass data, Reuters said.
The senator Rand Paul ultimately succeeded in blocking the extension of the Patriot Act. So the NSA is no longer responsible for mass collection data from US citizens' phones.
The end of the three basic provisions of the Patriot Act also means that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will not be able to rely on it to obtain warrants for data suspected of terrorism suspects who are not linked to a terrorist group.
While the above news can be palliative for anyone opposed to mass surveillance, nothing has been won altogether and unchanged. Do you think a secret service will stop doing its work? Somewhat difficult.
After all, nothing can put barriers in one of the most technologically developed services. Leaks have proven that their actions don't always follow the letter of the law…
The Ministry of Justice could invoke other provisions to extend the powers of the secret services, which from today 1 June will have to stop.
So under current law, secret services like the NSA wouldn't be allowed to ask companies for information about a specific person or device unless they can prove it's linked to a foreign power or terrorist organization. organization.
Naturally, one of the common mortals can not control what information services really will do. Somewhere here is the need for phenomena such as WikiLeaks, or Edward Snowden.
