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ACTION ALERT
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Tell the Senate TODAY to Vote No On Expanding Government Surveillance Powers
STOP RISAA, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion
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We all deserve privacy in our communications. Part of that is imposing
limits upon the government’s ability to collect and access them.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is a mass
surveillance law that creates an end run around our constitutional rights
and a back door for the government to query our communications. The
government has repeatedly abused Section 702 by searching its databases for
Americans’ communications. In 2021 alone, the FBI reported conducting up to
3.4 million warrantless searches of Section 702 data using Americans’ identifiers.
That’s why it’s critical to reform this mass surveillance law.
TELL THE SENATE: DON'T EXPAND MASS SURVEILLANCE
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The House of Representatives just passed a dangerous reauthorization bill,
the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), that greatly
increases the scope of information the government can collect under Section
702. It allows the government to use this unaccountable and out-of-control
mass surveillance authority to spy on hopeful immigrants and asylum seekers.
This move abandons any real argument that this is for terrorism or intelligence only.
Nearly half of the U.S. House of Representatives supported important reforms
that require the government to obtain court approval before accessing
Americans’ communications in the government’s Section 702 databases—but
at the last minute, the pro-mass surveillance side passed a bill which actually
expands, rather than reforms these powers. That’s why we need you to tell the
Senate to stop it!
FISA is set to expire Friday, April 19. The U.S. Senate will likely try to advance
RISAA this week. Sen. Ron Wyden called RISAA “one of the most dramatic and
terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.” He’s right.
Tell your Senators TODAY to vote NO on the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act.
TELL THE SENATE: DON'T EXPAND MASS SURVEILLANCE
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Yours,
Matthew Guariglia
Activism Team
Electronic Frontier Foundation
P.S. Sen. Ron Wyden called RISAA “one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.” He’s right. Please take a moment to help stop this dangerous bill.
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