U.S. Congress Limits Surveillance with Passage of the USA FREEDOM Act

On June 2, 2015, President Barrack Obama signed legislation approved by the U.S. Senate which curtails the federal government’s sweeping surveillance of phone records and related security policy in place since just after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The new legislation, called the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015” or the “USA Freedom Act of 2015”, known in the U.S. House of Representatives as H.R. 2048.