Pervasive surveillance in the US forces journalists and lawyers to use spy techniques to communicate with their source and clients.

Although the Senate is now considering a bill that would make it harder for the NSA to collect records in bulk, that would not prevent targeted investigations aimed at a journalist to find the journalist's sources. The approach of limiting access to giant digital dossiers is simply not capable of solving the problem. We must stop the creation of these dossiers.

Comparing the Senate bill with the toothless House bill.