If it emerges unscathed from the chamber, it could mean an end to bulk metadata collection, an end to the secrecy the government’s been operating under, and reform of the USA Patriot Act that’s been used to grant it vast surveillance rights. 
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US arrests Russian MP’s son for PoS hacking; Russia calls it kidnapping
The Russian man’s father conjectures that, for all he knows, this may be a ploy for the US to get bait to exchange for Snowden. 
NSA catches only 10% of data legally, but is it a fair trade off?
That leaves large-scale privacy invasion on 90% of 160,000 analysed messages swept up illegally by the NSA. But credit where credit is due: the legal 10% of intercepts have significant intelligence value, including data about a secret overseas nuclear project and double-dealing by an ostensible ally.
What we learned from Edward Snowden
Tapping the conversations of world leaders, facial recognition, PRISM, Tempura, Upstream, XKeyscore… Whether you think Snowden’s a hero or a traitor, there’s no denying that revelations about widespread spying by the NSA keep pouring out. One year on from the first leak, we thought we’d take a look back at what we’ve learned.
NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance targets, a new report says.
NSA intercepts routers, servers to slip in backdoors for overseas surveillance
US intelligence has been covertly implanting interception tools into US networking equipment heading overseas, alleges Glenn Greenwald. 
Canadian ISPs ‘boomerang routing’ traffic through the snoopy US
A new report on carriers and transparency found that the country’s internet lords aren’t being upfront about shuffling intra-Canadian traffic through the US, which means that data resides where the NSA can get its hands on it and Canadian privacy laws don’t pertain. 