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April 22, 2024

Biden Signs Reauthorization of FISA's Section 702 Despite Privacy and Rights Concerns
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President Biden has signed legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act despite warnings from privacy
experts that the bill could greatly expand the ability for the
government to conduct warrantless domestic surveillance. The Senate
approved the FISA bill on Friday in a 60-34 vote. Critics include
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who described the bill as "one
of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government
surveillance authority in history."

Sen. Ron Wyden: "If you have access to any communications, the
government can force you to help it spy. That means anybody with access
to a server, a wire, a cable box, a Wi-Fi router, a phone or a computer.
… If this provision is enacted, the government can deputize any of these
people against their will and force them, in effect, to become what
amounts to an agent for Big Brother."



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