Pat Leahy's a liberal Democrat from Vermont, but he and I see eye to eye on a lot of things, including data privacy and the Fourth Amendment. So We passed legislation, bipartisan, called the USA Freedom Act, that ended the practice of bulk telephone metadata collection. a process by which the government was, without a warrant, collecting data on your phone calls, anyone you called, anyone who called you when you talked, how long you talked, and so forth. (36:19–36:29)
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