Security News > 2020 > January > Bipartisan Bill Aims to Reform NSA Surveillance of Americans
U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that aims to reform the National Security Agency's surveillance programs in an effort to protect citizens' rights.
The senator, a vocal critic of the NSA's surveillance programs, last year introduced a bill that sought to put an end to the mass collection of Americans' phone records.
The controversial Section 215 has allowed the NSA to collect billions of phone records and other types of data.
The new bill seeks to permanently end what lawmakers describe as the "Flawed phone surveillance program," and prohibits the warrantless collection of location, browsing history, and internet search history data.
It also aims to close legal loopholes that have been used by the U.S. government to collect communications records without a court order, and ensures more oversight and transparency by giving independent attorneys access to all documents, records and proceedings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.