House lawmakers will soon introduce a bipartisan bill aiming to end the domestic bulk collection of Americans’ phone record data by the government, according to U.S. News & World Report. But the bill faces a hurdle: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has introduced a bill to reauthorize existing legal provisions used to conduct domestic surveillance that would otherwise expire June 1, the report states. Meanwhile, the Obama administration’s new defense secretary visited Silicon Valley last week to appeal to engineers whose help the government needs in combatting cybercrimes, and Michael Cohen opines for The Boston Globe that attempts by Wikileaks at public transparency by hacking documents actually “represent a threat to our already shrinking zone of privacy.”
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