User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-74.83.94.124-20140207131840/@comment-20644-20140207152008

Good comment. The author of the USA Freedoms Act, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, was also one of the authors (and the original sponsor) of the Patriot Act. He believes that the power of the Patriot Act has been misused, and that things like bulk data collection are not what the Patriot Act was intended for. The USA Freedoms Act is an attempt to curb that power.