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Any post 9/11 surveillance practices have taken place because of Congress and their need to combat terrorism by taking away basic freedoms.

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In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked documents that revealed the FISA court forced Verizon to turn over all phone records and logs. He brought many other privacy violations to light, but the "phone records" attracted the most atention.

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"So despite the fact that some of the Republican debaters were up in arms about it, the USA Freedom Act actually has produced only very marginal gains for privacy: the call records program as we knew it has ended (though the government may be doing the same thing by different legal means), some subpoena recipients will be able to challenge gag orders stopping them from disclosing and publicly challenging them, and a public advocate of sorts has been created to make privacy arguments in the otherwise totally-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. "

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The NSA collects and have access to metadata and content.

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Subpeonas are nearly impossible to challenge.

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" In part, that is because metadata isn’t protected by the warrant requirement the same way the content of your phone calls is. In 1978 the Supreme Court decided that the list of phone numbers you dial is something you’ve voluntarily turned over to a third party (the phone company) for their use, and thus deserves less legal protection than the actual content of what you say during the calls."

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The ACLU proved that the Patriot Act was an abuse of powers.

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"Mass metadata gathering is less susceptible to the needle-in-a-haystack problem than mass content gathering, because it is so readily machine-analyzable."

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The law states that data collected from phone records about what you say or write is treated differently from the data about who it is to or from.

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Even with the USA Freedom Act, the NSA still collects "metadata" of phone records.

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The USA Freedom Act shut down the phone records for only two and a half weeks.

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The Patriot Act supported the surveillance of everyone in a set of American customers that were identified statutory authority.

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Surveillance After the USA Freedom Act: How much has changed?

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Surveillance After the USA Freedom Act: How much has changed?

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-center-for-constitutional-rights/surveillance-after-the-us_b_8827952.html