DoomsdaysCW<p>House votes to reapprove law allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/warrantless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warrantless</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> of US citizens</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fisa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fisa</span></a> allows for monitoring of foreign communications, as well as collection of citizens’ messages and calls</p><p>Nick Robins-Early<br>Fri 12 Apr 2024 </p><p>"The law, which gives the government expansive powers to view emails, calls and texts, has long been divisive and resulted in allegations from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> groups that it violates privacy rights. House Republicans were split in the lead-up to vote over whether to reauthorize <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Section702" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Section702</span></a>, the most contentious aspect of the bill...</p><p>"Section 702 allows for government agencies such as the National Security Administration to collect data and monitor the communications of foreign citizens outside of US territory without the need for a warrant, with authorities touting it as a key tool in targeting cybercrime, international drug trafficking and terrorist plots. Since the collection of foreign data can also gather communications between people abroad and those in the US, however, the result of section 702 is that federal law enforcement can also monitor American citizens’ communications.</p><p>"Section 702 has faced opposition before, but it became especially fraught in the past year after court documents revealed that the FBI had improperly used it almost 300,000 times – targeting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RacialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RacialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a>, January 6 suspects and others...</p><p>"Section 702 dates back to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWBush</span></a> administration, which secretly ran warrantless wiretapping and surveillance programs in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks. In 2008, Congress passed section 702 as part of the Fisa Amendments Act and put foreign surveillance under more formal government oversight. Lawmakers have renewed the law twice since, including in 2018 when they rejected an amendment that would have required authorities to get warrants for US citizens’ data."</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/fisa-surveillance-act-reauthorized" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/12/fisa-surveillance-act-reauthorized</span></a></p>