TIME: Bill Curbing NSA Passes House As Advocates Demand More
Harley Geiger, Senior Counsel and Deputy Director of CDT’s Project on Freedom, Security and Technology, was interviewed by TIME Magazine on the recently passed USA FREEDOM Act.
The House passed legislation Thursday to curtail the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ phone records, but the compromise bill left civil liberties groups and privacy advocates unhappy and vowing to fight for stronger reforms in the Senate.
The vote came a year after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden set off a global debate about American surveillance practices by leaking a trove of documents detailing them. Privacy groups pulled their support for the bill before it came to a vote, but it still passed 303-120.
