[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.