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| US surveillance powers to expire as Senate deal fails | US surveillance powers to expire as Senate deal fails |
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| US anti-terror provisions that allow security services to bulk collect phone data are set to expire after the Senate failed to reach a deal. | |
| Key provisions of the law, known as the Patriot Act, will expire at midnight local time (04:00 GMT). | Key provisions of the law, known as the Patriot Act, will expire at midnight local time (04:00 GMT). |
| A vote on the Freedom Act, a revised bill that imposes greater controls on phone data collection, will not take place until mid-week. | A vote on the Freedom Act, a revised bill that imposes greater controls on phone data collection, will not take place until mid-week. |
| The White House has described it as an "irresponsible lapse" by the Senate. | |
| "On a matter as critical as our national security, individual Senators must put aside their partisan motivations and act swiftly. The American people deserve nothing less," it said in a statement. | |
| The failure to reach a deal means that security services will temporarily lose the right to bulk collect phone records, to monitor "lone wolf" terror suspects and to carry out "roving wiretaps" of suspects. | |
| The National Security Agency (NSA) who run the majority of surveillance programmes has already begun switching off its servers that collect data. |