FISA Section 702

EPIC, Coalition of Civil Liberties Groups Launch New Website on FISA Reform

EPIC and a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties organizations — Americans for Prosperity, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Demand Progress, Due Process Institute, Free Press Action, FreedomWorks, the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Restore the Fourth, and Wikimedia Foundation — have launched a new website on the need for significant reform to the government surveillance ecosystem as part of any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

• FISA Section 702

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Ireland Fines Meta €1.2 Billion, Orders Halt of Personal Data Transfers to U.S.

ompany to suspend transfers of personal data to the United States within five months, finding that Meta’s transfers violation the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• FISA Section 702

• International Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Newly Released FISC Opinion Reveals FBI Misused FISA Section 702 to Search for Racial Justice Protestors, Activist Groups, and Political Campaign Donors

The FISC detailed the FBI’s “pattern of conducting broad, suspicionless queries” of information collected under Section 702, a sweeping warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance authority.

• FISA Section 702

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Seeks ODNI-Led Report on Government Data Purchases

PIC submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) concerning an ODNI-led report on the government’s purchase of data, including sensitive data on Americans.

• FISA Section 702

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Launches Campaign to Reform or Sunset FISA Section 702

Ahead of the potential sunset of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) at the end of 2023, EPIC has launched a campaign to significantly reform the sweeping surveillance authority or let it sunset.

• FISA Section 702

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Washington Monthly: The Case for Keeping Enhanced Surveillance Authority

• FISA Section 702

• Surveillance Oversight

WIRED: A US Congressman Says the FBI Unlawfully Targeted Him

• FISA Section 702

• Open Government

• Surveillance Oversight

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