The Senate Privacy Subcommittee plans a hearing on the...
The Senate Privacy Subcommittee plans a hearing on the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013, it said in a notice Monday (http://1.usa.gov/1ff8LwH). The hearing will be Nov. 13 at 10 a.m. in 226 Dirksen. Subcommittee Chairman Al Franken, D-Minn., introduced the…
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legislation and will preside over the hearing. The bill would call for the government to report annually on the number of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders issued under the authorities of the Patriot Act and FISA, the general categories of information collected, the number of Americans and permanent U.S. residents whose information fell into those categories and was actually reviewed by federal agents and how many searches were run on that data. That’s what Franken’s office said when re-introducing the legislation last week with Dean Heller, R-Nev. (CD Oct 31 p9). Companies would also be able to disclose the number of orders received and complied with, the categories of information they produced and the number of users whose information was produced in these categories.