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Addressing the Senate Intelligence Committee, Ratcliffe called the statute “indispensable” for national security, noting that it provides over half of the actionable foreign intelligence used by the president.
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The number of FBI searches of the database of a warrantless surveillance program was cut more than in half in 2023, according to a U.S. intelligence report released on Tuesday.
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Only more than 57,000 searches were conducted by the FBI on the database of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2023, representing an over 50% decrease in queries from the previous year that a senior FBI official said was due to the agency’s internal reforms, according to The Record, a news site…
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The House Rules Committee has paved the way for floor debate on revised legislation to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program, breaking a months-long stalemate among Republican lawmakers just days before the law is due to expire.
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Section 702 renewal has support in Congress, but intelligence officials are leery of program changes
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Lawmakers will soon determine the fate of a contested foreign surveillance law that’s set to expire in under two weeks, and the intelligence community is imploring Congress to keep the statute as close to the status quo as possible, including rejecting measures that spy agencies say would impair the tool’s effectiveness but privacy advocates argue…
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Analysis The FBI’s latest PR salvo, as it fights to preserve its warrantless snooping powers on Americans via FISA Section 702, is more big talk of cyberattacks by the Chinese government.
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Privacy in the digital age Members Online
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:
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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has released its much-anticipated report on Section 702, a legal authority that allows the government to collect a massive amount of digital communications around the world and in the U.S. The PCLOB agreed with EFF and organizations across the political spectrum that the program requires significant reforms…