Several U.S. senators will push for changes in the way the National Security Agency collects the telephone records of millions of Americans. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said they will introduce legislation targeting the NSA telephone records collection program. The bill would also allow companies to disclose the number of surveillance requests they get from government agencies, a change Google, Microsoft and other companies have asked for. Civil liberties groups called for wider changes to the surveillance programs, including new public advocates in the court process. The hearing largely ignored the NSA’s so-called Prism program, which collects the content of email and other Internet communications of targets believed to be outside the U.”]
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