Two bills, the bipartisan and bicameral Government Surveillance Reform Act (GSRA) and H. R. 7816, the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act (PLEWSA), have been introduced. They would restore desperately needed privacy protections from the government for people in the United States, while also creating a path to reauthorize the controversial surveillance authority known […]
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In April, the government’s surveillance powers under Section 702 of FISA will expire. Since 2015, Congress’s efforts to rein in the surveillance state have largely focused on the NSA’s “FISA 702 database”, and in particular on two things: (a) Closing the backdoor search loophole: Limiting, and requiring a warrant for, queries by other agencies of […]