Note that there are two proposals here, much like good cop (Obama Administration) and bad cop (House Intelligence Committee[1]), but both leave broader §215 authority intact i.e. business records not to mention §702 and Upstream collection.
Both also seem to be attempting to reinstate the full Telephony Activity Detection Process which they haven't been able to do legally since 2009[2][3] due to alert abuses[4].
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Note that there are two proposals here, much like good cop (Obama Administration) and bad cop (House Intelligence Committee[1]), but both leave broader §215 authority intact i.e. business records not to mention §702 and Upstream collection.
Both also seem to be attempting to reinstate the full Telephony Activity Detection Process which they haven't been able to do legally since 2009[2][3] due to alert abuses[4].
[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230394970...
[2] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/the-na...
[3] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/03/24/nsa-bids-to-expand-spyi...
[4] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/01/23/how-nsa-spies-on-first-...