Most readers know that the House has reauthorized FISA-702 through December 31, 2025. It allows unelected bureaucrats to capture non-US persons’ data without a warrant for foreign intelligence purposes, but they routinely capture US citizens’ data in their sweeps. The bill was amended, and it’s now worse than it was. The vehicle for modification is HR 6611 , which CDT calls a Trojan Horse.
FISA-7O2 was to sunset on December 31st, 2023, and there was desperation in the upper echelons to renew it. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) reports that a provision now exists in the bill to expand surveillance under this act [to an endless reach into US businesses] .
Section 504 of the bill, “Definition of Electronic Communications Service Provider,” would expand the types of entities that can be compelled to disclose internet communications , whether in storage or transit.
This section allows the US government to compel […]
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