Action Alert
Tell Congress to Reject Massive Surveillance Expansion
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has introduced the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023–an absolutely awful bill that ignores years of abuse and unconstitutional surveillance in order to renew a mass surveillance law with no real changes, reforms, or new oversight.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire on December 31, 2023, and there is currently a race to see what bill will renew Big Brother and the NSA's favorite surveillance law. Any reauthorizations must come with significant reforms in order to protect the privacy of people’s communications. But this is not that. This is a five alarm fire and we need your help to get all Members to vote NO on the Intelligence Committee’s bill, H.R.6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023.
tELL CONGRESS: DEFEAT THIS BAD 702 BILL
EFF has long fought for significant changes to Section 702. By the government’s own numbers, violations are still occurring at a rate of more than 4,000 per year. Our government, with the FBI in the lead, has come to treat Section 702—enacted by Congress for the surveillance of foreigners on foreign soil —as a domestic surveillance program of Americans. This simply cannot be allowed to continue. Please urge your member of Congress to reject this bill.
Yours,
Matthew Guariglia
Senior Policy Analyst
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