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Failed Vote Means No End in Sight to NSA's Data Slurping
2013-07-26 00:29:08| TechNewsWorld
A proposal to restrict the NSA's surveillance of Americans' phone calls was defeated by a mere 12 votes in the U.S. House on Wednesday in a battle that drew unusual bipartisan support at a time when partisanship is running at an all-time-high. The amendment to the defense-spending bill sought to restrict the collection of metadata to instances connected to a relevant ongoing investigation.
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