There is “a glimmer of light” despite the Senate’s move to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, says the ACLU.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to renew U.S. spy provisions, extending the powers of the NSA to collect internet communications for another six years.

Civil liberties groups are anxiously waiting to see if an anti-surveillance amendment will be added to a Department of Defense spending bill Tuesday. The so-called Massie-Lofgren amendment would reign in U.S. domestic mass surveillance by the NSA and protect U.S. encryption standards. The amendment, considered a significant post-Snowden reform, risks not being added to a...