Dismayed by the extent of the government’s post-Sept. 11 surveillance activities, which many of them had previously voted to authorize, House lawmakers Thursday approved new restrictions on the National Security Agency that amount to the most sweeping curbs on domestic intelligence-gathering in a generation.Even supporters of the legislation conceded that it may not fully end the dragnet-style government surveillance of Americans that generated public outcry after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden began disclosing the agency’s operations a year ago.
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The legislation imposes important new limits on the bulk collection of telephone records, one of the most controversial aspects of the government’s heightened data-collection efforts, and requires warrants for individual collection of records.
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