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President Barack Obama has signed into law the USA Freedom Act, which extends three expiring surveillance provisions of the 9/11-era USA Patriot Act.
A federal court has ruled that the NSA’s metadata surveillance program, which collected information on at least 80 percent of all the phone calls made or received by Americans, was not authorized by the PATRIOT Act and therefore illegal.
