Phone Data Collection Provision Died On Sunday Night

For a couple of days, at least, your phone data is your own again. The Senate failed to reach a compromise to continue key provisions of the Patriot Act, including the bulk collection of American phone records, which effectively stopped at 3:59 p.m. on Sunday. One of the people standing in the way of extending the program was Republican Sen. and presidential hopeful Rand Paul, who angered many of his GOP colleagues with his no vote, citing citizens’ privacy concerns. Also going away – at least until the Senate can give it another shot at 1 a.m. on Tuesday — are provisions allowing the FBI to collect business records in terrorism cases and to monitor suspects dumping cell phones to avoid surveillance. The Senate is expected to vote later this week to shift the storage of phone records from the government to the phone companies and then send a compromise bill to President Obama that would scale back the amount of phone records collected.

Police Have Shot Nearly 400 People This Year

Two a day. That’s the amount of people (385) fatally shot so far this year by police, a figure twice as high as the number counted by federal officials. According to the Washington Post report, half the male victims were white and half minority (171 white, 100 black, 54 Hispanic, 6 Asian), compared to a total of 20 women. The majority of suspects were between 25-44 and more than 80 percent were armed with a gun, knife or other weapon, while 49 were unarmed and 13 had a toy weapon. The news comes as Baltimore -- rocked by riots after Freddie Gray’s death in police custody -- suffered three more fatal shootings over the weekend, bringing the city’s homicide count to 43 in May, making it the violent month in more than 40 years.

Former Kidnapping Victim Gives Birth

Elizabeth Smart, whose tale of kidnap at age 14 became a national story, gave birth to her first child in February. Smart’s father announced the news on Sunday, confirming that the activist for missing children and her husband welcomed daughter Chloe earlier this year. Smart was abducted from her family’s home 13 years ago by a homeless street preacher and kept for nine months before her abductor was captured and sentenced to life in prison.

What’s My Real Name Again?

Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, will be the site of a protest by drag queens, domestic abuse survivors and Native American activists on Monday over protest the company’s "real name" policy. A company spokesperson said Facebook has been working closely with drag queens and other affected groups to make changes to how it applies the policy requiring users to sign in with their birth names or face expulsion from the site.

Quick Take 1: A Silicon Valley recycling firm is looking for an anonymous Bay Area 60-70-year-old woman who dropped off an Apple-1 computer last week worth close to $100,000. The woman left some boxes of e-waste she gathered from her garage after her husband’s death; the computer was one of only 200 of the original machines produced in 1976 that sold for $666.66.

Quick Take 2: Look for South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, 59, to jump into the presidential race on Monday, making him the ninth GOP contender. So far he doesn’t have enough support to make it onto most national polls.