A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill that would end the “secret law” that keeps government surveillance programs in the shadows. Google and Facebook want to show users a transparency report with “information about the size and scope of national security requests” The ACLU filed a constitutional challenge to the NSA dragnet surveillance program in which the agency “vacuums up information about every phone call placed within, from, or to the U.S.” ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said the program “exceeds the authority that Congress through the Patriot Act””]