The US Congress endorsed National Security Agency reform in an historic
vote for the US Freedom Act, seen by some as a major win for the exiled
whistleblower.
The so-called Freedom Act is the successor to the Patriot Act’s specific
provisions on domestic surveillance, and the main change it brings is
that telecommunications providers, not the government, will store
customers’ data instead. Critics have decried the Freedom Act as not
doing enough to abide by the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees
Americans freedom from unlawful searches and seizures. Snowden himself
commemorated it for being a step in the right direction, but expressed
dissatisfaction that it didn’t go far enough in protecting Americans’
privacy.
Seen by some as a controversial and divisive figure, Snowden,
nevertheless, was the one who made the world aware of the NSA’s
controversial domestic spying programs, and the Freedom Act wouldn’t
have been possible had it not been for his courageous whistleblowing.
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