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A look at the post-Sept. 11 surveillance provisions that expired on Monday, June 1, 2015: Section 215 of the Patriot Act This has been used to authorize the National Security Agency's bulk ...
On May 20, 2015, Paul spoke for ten and a half hours in opposition to the reauthorization of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. [46] At midnight on May 31, 2015, Section 215 expired. [47] With the passage of the USA Freedom Act on June 2, 2015 the expired parts of law, including Section 215, were reported broadly as restored and renewed through ...
The American Library Association strongly objects to section 215. In a resolution passed on June 29, 2005 they stated that "Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act allows the government to secretly request and obtain library records for large numbers of individuals without any reason to believe they are involved in illegal activity". They resolved:
The first act reauthorized all but two Title II provisions. Two sections were changed to sunset on December 31, 2009: section 206—the roving wiretap provision—and section 215, which allowed access to business records under FISA. Section 215 was amended further to give greater judicial oversight and review.
However, on June 15, 2005, they made a second attempt to limit section 215 searches in an amendment to another House appropriations bill [83] and this time it passed with a vote of 238–187 in favor of the Sanders amendment. [84] Not all proposed legislation was against the Patriot Act, however.
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On November 5, 2013, Apple became the most prominent company to publicly state that it had never received an order for user data under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] On September 18, 2014, GigaOm reported that the warrant canary statement did not appear anymore in the next two Apple Transparency Reports, covering July–December ...
The so-called "murder hornet" has been eradicated from the United States, five years after the invasive species was first discovered in Washington state, officials declared Wednesday. There have ...