[wtn]

Some of the programs originally from the USA PATRIOT Act expired in March 2020.

[ancarda]

Do you happen to know which ones?

[hundchenkatze]

I believe it was the far-reaching section 215, which allowed bulk collection of phone records and other data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_summary_of_the_Patriot...

[nitrogen]

Maybe the growing obsolescence of the legacy telephone network is why those provisions lapsed, and now we are seeing the fight for a replacement.

[vxNsr]

Nope they lapsed bec trump was upset that they were illegally used against him and he didn’t want anyone else to suffer the same fate.

[yonaguska]

Section 215 is the major one. Allows government to obtain secret warrants for surveillance via a secret court system(FISC, FISA).

Lindsey Graham(R) tried to extend this- but Trump has been somewhat vocally against this extension due to his own allegations that the FISA courts were misused to spy on him.

[suizi]

The House and Senate are fighting to get it reauthorised.

[raxxorrax]

Trump as savior? People would be shocked.