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 law Patriot. Έτσι η NSA δεν είναι πλέον αρμόδια για τη μαζική data collection by phones of US citizens.
The expiration of the three main provisions of the Patriot Act also means that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will not be able to invoke it to obtain warrants to wiretapping terrorism suspects who are not connected to any terrorism team.
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 a stop to one of the most technologically advanced services. Leaks have proven that their actions do not always go with 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.
Thus, under current legislation, secret services such as the NSA will not be allowed to ask companies for a particular person or device unless they can prove they are related to a foreign force or a terrorist organization.
Of course no mere mortal can control what the intelligence agencies will actually do. Somewhere here the need for the existence of phenomena such as WikiLeaks, or Edward Snowden.
