From a few days ago, and there's debate about how much this matters. Still, it's the principle of the thing...
Central portions of the Patriot Act are now expired, after a late-night Senate vote failed to extend the provisions. Those portions include Section 215, which applies to business records requests and has been used to justify the bulk collection of American phone and internet records. The previous Patriot Act authorization had set those portions of the law to expire on June 1st if not renewed. NSA officials told CNN that the agency's bulk metadata collection operation was shut down at 7:44pm Sunday night, a few hours in advance of the deadline.