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18 Apr, 2015

No More Excuses on Patriot Act Surveillance Reform | Human Rights Watch

This week, Human Rights Watch took two major steps to challenge the US government’s invasive and unrestrained collection of our personal data. HRW, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the US Drug Enforcement Agency for illegally collecting records of our international calls as part of a secret mass surveillance program that has been ongoing for two decades. We have also joined a broad coalition urging the US Congress to stop bulk collection of our personal data under the USA Patriot Act. With a key legislative deadline coming up fast, we’re calling on Congress not to reauthorize Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act as it currently exists and take up meaningful surveillance reform instead.

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