…and here we go again with the semantics …." Specifically, the House changed the definition of a search term from “a term used to uniquely describe a person, entity, or account†to “a discrete term, such as a term specifically identifying a person, entity, account, address, or device.†That shift, particularly the removal of the word “unique†and addition of “such as,†might be enough to enable nearly the same sort of mass surveillance the NSA now conducts…"
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would end the NSA’s mass collection of Americans’ phone records. Unfortunately, it may not end the NSA’s mass collection of Americans’ phone records.
