Warantless spying endangers US protesters
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Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, due to expire in April 2024 unless renewed, is intended to allow intelligence agencies to surveil foreigners overseas but under the rubric of "foreign influence" or "foreign intelligence gathering" can easily be abused to surveil Americans at home in response to political leaders' current obsessions. Government documents showed in 2023 that the FBI has misused S702 to search Black Lives Matter protesters' communications between 2020 and 2021, according to a report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Publication: LA Times
Writer: Kia Hamadanchy
Publication date: 2024-02-08
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