and a former CEO with more than 25 years of proven financial, IT/cyber, marketing and execution expertise in building companies. Her past roles include: CEO and Chairman of Westwind Media; President and COO of Rocky Mountain Internet; and President of AT&T’s Western Region and Corporate Officer of AT&T Corp. Ms. Vitale holds a Certificate for Cybersecurity Oversight and is a qualified U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Qualified Audit Committee Financial Expert (ACFE). She has been and is an independent board member to public and private companies in various stages of growth and global expansion, chairing the Audit, Risk and Technology, Compensation, and Nominating and Governance Committees for boards of directors as well as being lead director. She is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Advisory ServicesWashington: The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency's warrantless internet surveillance program, overcoming objections from privacy advocates and politicians from both sides of Congress.

The legislation, which passed 256-164 and split party lines, is the culmination of a years-long debate in Congress on the proper scope of US intelligence collection - one fuelled by the 2013 disclosures of classified surveillance secrets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Senior Democrats in the House had urged cancellation of the vote after US President Donald Trump appeared to cast doubt on the merits of the program, but Republicans forged ahead.

Trump initially said the surveillance program, first created in secret after the September 11, 2001 attacks, had been used against him but later said it was