The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday morning to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act for six years. The House shot down an alternative bill, which would have required that the government get a warrant prior to searching through the data of American citizens swept up in the controversial surveillance program. In this quick-and-dirty special edition of The Privacy Advisor Podcast — and for those of you who prefer to consume news via your headphones versus your eyeballs — IAPP Westin Fellow Lee Matheson, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, talks to Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, on what privacy pros should know about yesterday's vote.
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