Congress should enact reforms that prevent the National Security...
Congress should enact reforms that prevent the National Security Agency from being able to collect data about Americans’ phone records and online activities, and launch an investigation into NSA programs that facilitated the collection of such data, said a group…
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of civil liberties organizations in a letter to Congress Wednesday (http://bit.ly/11Zn03N). The coalition of 115 advocates and Internet companies -- which includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU and Mozilla -- urged Congress to “immediately and publicly” reform Section 215 of the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act “to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court.” Additionally, Congress should form a committee “to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying” and propose “specific recommendations for legal and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance,” the letter said.