Mr Senator, I am writing to urge you not to support the FISA Improvements Act that recently cleared the Senate Intelligence Committee. The text of the Act would authorize the bulk collection of Internet meta-data, and not just phone records. Internet meta-data does not just record who I have talked to, it also records what web sites I have visited. This sort of meta-data is not normally stored by Internet Service Providers for extended lengths of time and doing so would be a significant change. People do much of their consumption of news and information via the Internet today. If the government begins keeping records of everything that everyone is reading, this will have negative consequences down the road.

Respectfully, Tom Cross