Hi,
The FBI, CIA, and NSA desperately want to keep spying on you.
That’s why these agencies are doing everything they can to protect Section
702, a dangerous portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that
allows agencies to collect, use, and share our personal data, including
online communications, without a warrant.
Right now, Congress is considering whether or not to reauthorize Section
702, and these agencies are scared they could lose the vote. They’re
meeting with Senators, publishing reports, and even penning fearmongering
op-eds to make sure they maintain their mass surveillance powers.^1
But we have voices from across the political spectrum lining up against
illegal mass surveillance. We need to keep the pressure on Congress to
finally end out-of-control spying on Americans.^2
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Congress must end mass surveillance!
ADD YOUR NAME
Section 702 allows intelligence agencies to collect, use, and disseminate
content that moves across U.S. internet companies (like Google, Facebook,
Microsoft) or via U.S. internet networks (like AT&T, Verizon, and Cox).^3
Theoretically, Section 702 should only be used against non-US persons
located abroad. But because the law allows the collection of any
communications sent to, from, or about a target, agencies like the NSA and
FBI can easily surveil Americans through overly-broad “backdoor”
searches.^3
Agencies regularly ignore even these loose rules, and simply use Section
702 to monitor huge batches of Americans’ communications. That’s what the
FBI did last month when agents recently searched Section 702 data for
information about a U.S. Senator, a state Senator, and a judge.^4
In March, Demand Progress uncovered documents revealing that the FBI
unlawfully scoured Section 702’s massive surveillance troves using the
name of a U.S. Congressman.
Despite pledging to rein in their spying on Americans, every year the FBI
alone conducts hundreds of thousands of backdoor searches.^5
The intelligence agencies are giving their best PR pitch to convince
Congress and the public that warrantless mass surveillance is necessary.
But we know that Section 702 is overly broad, dangerous, and threatens
Americans’ Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and
seizure.
It’s time for Congress to end mass surveillance by overhauling Section 702
and FISA writ large — or refuse to reauthorize Section 702 altogether.
[ [link removed] ]Add your name: End warrantless mass surveillance!
Thanks for taking action,
Joey and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. The Hill, “Reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act is a national security imperative,” [ [link removed] ]August 16,
2023.
2. The Hill, “FBI improperly used Section 702 surveillance powers on US
senator,” [ [link removed] ]July 21, 2023.
3. Washington Post, “The fight over an expiring surveillance authority
just kicked off,” [ [link removed] ]January 13, 2023.
4. NBC, “FBI wrongly searched for U.S. senator and state senator in
Section 702 spy data, court says,” [ [link removed] ]July 21, 2020.
5. Wired, “The FBI’s Most Controversial Surveillance Tool Is Under
Threat,” [ [link removed] ]February 10, 2023.
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