National security, and the role that government surveillance plays in it, has been one of the hot-button issues of this presidential campaign.
The USA Freedom Act — which was passed last June with overwhelming bipartisan support — may have ended the NSA’s mass collection of American’s phone records, but telecom companies will continue to amass your phone data. The only difference is now the NSA must go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court for permission to gain access. (Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that same secret court gave the NSA permission to indiscriminately collect Americans’ phone records in the first place.)
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