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USA FREEDOM Act

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USA PATRIOT Act replacement

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    In United States: Normalizing relations with Cuba, the USA FREEDOM Act, and the Office of Personnel Management data breach

    …June the Senate passed the USA FREEDOM Act, which curtailed the government’s authority to collect data and made the process by which it requested data through the national security court more transparent. The legislation replaced the USA PATRIOT Act, which had been enacted in the interest of national security in…

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  • George W. Bush: signing of USA PATRIOT Act
    In USA PATRIOT Act: Reauthorizations

    …2015, Obama signed the Senate-approved USA FREEDOM (Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring) Act into law, which replaced the USA PATRIOT Act and curtailed the government’s authority to collect data. This revision was largely in response to Edward Snowden’s exposure in 2013 of…

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