BS, the government has proven they cannot be trusted with these kind of surveillance tools. My gosh, they got caught using them on an opposition POTUS campaign. And no one has been held accountable. Any congress critter that votes to renew this should not be re-elected period.
Yep. Time after time. This comes up every 15 to 20 years, and the government gets more hardware to snoop with.
The law on this subject is a total sham. Always has been. The government didn't curtail snooping when it got FISA in 1978. It expanded the payroll, created more paperwork, and pointed to the law as providing effective protection for personal privacy.
Whatever law it passes this week will be the same. The government will point to it as evidence that the government is now under control, see new law.
Den of crooks, liars and thieves.