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Thought bulk data collection was gone? Think again

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The NSA is gearing up to collect millions of Americans telephone metadata -- again. Just two days after the agency shut down that program when the Patriot Act provision that authorized it expired Sunday at midnight, the Senate restored those authorities, allowing the government to reinstate bulk data collection -- for the next six months. How? By passing the USA Freedom Act, the bill intended to end that very program.

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