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• Critics blast US NSA phone records bill as 'fake reform'

  Even some supporters say the USA Freedom Act should be only one step toward surveillance reform

• Groups to push for encryption, secure payments at White House cyber summit

  The White House will hear ideas for improvements at its first cybersecurity summit in Silicon Valley

• Senator pushes new version of bill to limit NSA phone records collection

  Leahy reintroduces the USA Freedom Act in an effort to strengthen the bill that passed the House

• US needs to restore trust following NSA revelations, tech groups say

  Congress and the Obama administration can enact surveillance reforms to slow backlash against the US IT industry, advocates say

• US privacy board defends conclusion that foreign surveillance is legal

  The NSA's foreign surveillance programs comply with US law and are effective in stopping terrorism, the board says

• House votes to outlaw NSA's bulk collection of phone records

  The USA Freedom Act would require the agency to get court approval to collect records on a case-by-case basis

Features about Kevin Bankston

• Debate over NSA surveillance shifts with judge's ruling, task force report

  Critics of the agency's surveillance programs say momentum has shifted in the debate