Now that the House of Representatives is against enhancing privacy protections, it might be time to review some facts about domestic NSA surveillance programs…like the one that knows you are reading this article right now.

Three years following Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extensive NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens, Americans continue to have mixed views about the controversial programs. In fact, a large majority of Americans disapprove of current NSA surveillance techniques, specifically the collection of telephone and internet data, as part of its anti-terrorism efforts.

But in the wake of the massacre that occurred in a Florida nightclub during the summer of 2016, a legislative push to control warrantless surveillance was defeated by an amendment that passed in the House twice prior.

The about-face in the U.S. House of Representatives against enhancing privacy protections amid NSA surveillance is the first congressional repercussion of the Orlando mass-shooting. The amendment would have explicitly prevented funds in the defense spending bill from being allocated to impose surveillance-facilitated redesigns on popular products, or more simply, prohibited spending by the NSA to impose backdoors.

Even James Sensenbrenner, a Republican in the House of Representatives and key sponsor of the PATRIOT Act, affirms that U.S. Congress only intended its application to cases involving national security.

But just look at what the NSA has become: