Fisa-702 articles
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Killing the Constitution: Revised FISA is worse for freedom than its predecessor
Thanks to legislation last weekend, the United States in 2024 will soon resemble East Germany in the late 1980s, where nearly everyone was a spy and no one could talk about it.
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Joe Biden signs FISA extension, ending fight over warrantless spying -- temporarily
The intelligence community won a new expansion of snooping powers from Congress but opponents managed to cut the extension to just two years, meaning Capitol Hill will revisit the fight a lot sooner than the spy community had wanted.
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Biden signs bill to reauthorize FISA warrantless surveillance program for two more years
President Biden this weekend signed into law a bill that reauthorizes a controversial spying program under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 of FISA, which has now been extended for two more years, allows for warrantless intelligence gathering on foreign targets. While its focus is on the communications of targets located outside the US, that includes any exchanges with people stateside, meaning Americans’ records can get swept up in these collections too. The Senate...