The bill, named Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act of 2020, was introduced by a bipartisan, bicameral coalition of lawmakers led by Sen. Ron Wyden. The senator, a vocal critic of the NSA’s surveillance programs, last year introduced a bill that sought to put an end to the mass collection of Americans’ phone records.
The Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act of 2020 targets the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. The controversial Section 215 has allowed the NSA to collect billions of phone records and other types of data.
