Oregon Senator Ron Wyden continues to celebrate the passage of the USA Freedom Act, but says there's more to do.
The federal government's power to collect phone call data and hold it expired at the end of May.
Congress had to scramble to pass a new program, but it does not restore the power to hold the data, phone companies will hold it instead.
Wyden worked for a long time to stop the federal collection. And he says the efforts to find the balance between security and privacy do not end there.
His take, in an interview on the Jefferson Exchange: "Operations need to be kept secret… the law should always be kept public."