Daily Archives: May 23rd, 2015

Posted inCivil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology

U.S. Senate adjourns after failing to take any action to reform or renew the unPatriot Act

by Andrew Villeneuve

Well, that was real­ly some­thing. Just min­utes ago, the Unit­ed States Sen­ate adjourned for an extend­ed Memo­r­i­al Day week­end recess after hav­ing failed to pass any leg­is­la­tion to reform or renew expir­ing pro­vi­sions of the (un)Patriot Act — which means that the Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Agency and Fed­er­al Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion will need to start winding […]