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by ancarda 2180 days ago
Do you happen to know which ones?
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hundchenkatze 2180 days ago
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...

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nitrogen 2180 days ago
Maybe the growing obsolescence of the legacy telephone network is why those provisions lapsed, and now we are seeing the fight for a replacement.
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vxNsr 2180 days ago
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.
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yonaguska 2180 days ago
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.

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