When the U.S. House passed the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, which reauthorizes the FISA Section 702 surveillance authority, it overlooked something big — an amendment that would drive the greatest expansion of government surveillance authority in recent history. The Senate has time to correct this and restore balance between the needs of national security and the safeguarding of Americans’ civil liberties.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a legal authority enacted by Congress to enable the surveillance of foreign threats located abroad. But it has increasingly become a means of monitoring Americans located within the United States whose communications are often caught up in the government’s global trawl of data.
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