As the USA PATRIOT Act’s expiration nears, polls conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) indicate that more than 80 percent of Americans across party lines are “concerned” about the bill’s privacy implications, while 60 percent of respondents support “revising” the bill to reflect said concern, Newsweek reports. “The poll results tell us that in order to be more reflective of the public’s views on surveillance and the PATRIOT Act, members of Congress should more fully support reforms,” says the ACLU’s legislative counsel, Neema Singh Guliani.
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