{"id":3673,"date":"2015-06-02T10:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2015-06-02T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:11:12","slug":"never-thought-something-expired-would-taste-this-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/02\/never-thought-something-expired-would-taste-this-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Never thought something expired would taste this good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired.\u00a0 For the moment, the NSA&#8217;s bulk collection of phone metadata program is no more.\u00a0 A program that made our privacy vulnerable without actually finding a single terrorist has ended.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to all of you who advocated for allowing this and other provisions of the Patriot Act to sunset.\u00a0 The 4th Amendment is that much stronger as a result of your efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet our fight is still not over.\u00a0 The Senate is still taking up the USA Freedom Act and may vote on it today.\u00a0 We know Senators Warren and Markey will vote for it as the House approved it.<\/p>\n<p>Now that these provisions are dead, it is important to remind Senators Warren and Markey that they don&#8217;t have to support the USA Freedom Act to split the difference.\u00a0 The NSA&#8217;s mass surveillance program never worked and it left everyone&#8217;s privacy vulnerable.\u00a0 Give them a call:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a> \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senatorelizabethwarren\">Facebook<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/senwarren\">@SenWarren<\/a> \/ (202) 224-4543 \/ (617) 565-3170 &amp; (413) 788-2690<\/li>\n<li>Senator <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/\">Ed Markey<\/a> \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EdJMarkey\">Facebook<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/SenMarkey\">@SenMarkey<\/a> \/ (202) 224-2742 \/ (617) 565-8519<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired.\u00a0 For the moment, the NSA&#8217;s bulk collection of phone metadata program is no more.\u00a0 A&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kids4thAmendment.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-Xf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}