User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-954127-20140209213216/@comment-4811793-20140210165249

The USA Freedom Act's stated purpose is to reign in domestic spying by the NSA and other agencies, notably by stopping the bulk collection of Metadata and increasing transparency for the FISA request process. You can read up on the bill here, here, and here.