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As Congress moves to vote on the reauthorization of federal surveillance powers, two major U.S. communications providers said they would stop complying with orders set to expire at midnight, according to people familiar with the matter.
Officials have long argued that the law is a vital means of collecting electronic communications on foreign government adversaries and terrorist groups.
Backers may point to classified intelligence to convince colleagues to support the renewal of the controversial warrantless spying power.
Alphabet Inc’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users’ individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity of a crime.
The company said location data will soon be saved directly on users’ devices, blocking Google from seeing it and, by extension, blocking law enforcement demanding that information.