Tag: Section 702

  • EPIC, Coalition Statement Following Meeting with DNI Haines, Senior Intelligence Community Officials

    Over a dozen privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties groups from across the political spectrum met yesterday with Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines and other high ranking intelligence community officials to discuss Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA 702), and connected surveillance issues such as data purchases and surveillance pursuant to Executive Order 12333.

    • FISA Section 702

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Statements

  • EPIC, Bipartisan Coalition of Civil Society Groups Call Out Government’s Failure to Propose Meaningful Reform of Warrantless Surveillance Authorities

    EPIC joined a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties organizations in underscoring the need for significant reform to warrantless government surveillance activities ahead of a meeting with Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines and other senior intelligence officials on September 7 to discuss Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

    • FISA Section 702

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • Newly Released FISC Opinion Reveals FBI Improperly Searched for U.S. Senator in FISA Section 702 Data

    A newly released Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinion from April 2023 revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has continued to abuse its access to information collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including by searching for a U.S. Senator, a state senator, and a state court judge who had “complained to [the] FBI about alleged civil rights violations perpetrated by a municipal chief of police.”

    • FISA Section 702

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • European Commission Adopts Adequacy Decision for EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

    The European Commission has formally adopted an adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the Framework). U.S. and EU authorities developed the Framework to replace Privacy Shield, a data transfer framework which was deemed non-compliant with the GDPR in the Schrems II case.

    • Communications Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Enforcement of Privacy Laws

    • FISA Section 702

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • International Privacy

    • International Privacy Laws

    • Privacy Laws

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • ODNI Report on Intelligence Agencies’ Data Purchases Underscores Urgency of Reform

    The report found that the IC is collecting increasing amounts of CAI—including sensitive information like location data—but does not know how much CAI it is collecting, what types, or even what it is doing with that data.

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Analysis

  • EPIC, Coalition: New FBI Procedures under FISA Section 702 “Out of Touch” with Extent of Abuse and Gravity of Privacy Threat

    EPIC joined a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties organizations in rejecting the FBI’s newest attempt to preempt Congressional efforts to rein in the Bureau’s warrantless querying of U.S. person information under FISA Section 702.

    • FISA Section 702

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • It Will Take More than Reforming Section 702 to Rein in Warrantless Government Surveillance

    For all of Section 702’s privacy issues, the reality is that surveillance programs conducted pursuant to Section 702 are only one part of a much broader, unchecked expansion of the national security surveillance ecosystem.

    • FISA Section 702

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Analysis

  • 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

  • Reforming 702: Ensure Meaningful Avenues for Judicial Redress

    Throughout the history of Section 702, there has been a severe lack of judicial review and accountability, whether in criminal or civil proceedings, despite FISA’s express provision of such remedies. This lack of robust judicial review leaves us all worse off, with no opportunity to challenge the lawfulness of these programs and remedy surveillance harms.

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Analysis

  • EPIC, Coalition Call for Hearings on FISA Section 702, Broader Surveillance Reform

    EPIC has joined a coalition of civil society organizations in writing a letter to the chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, as well as the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, urging them to hold hearings on the need to reform FISA Section 702 and other government surveillance authorities.

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates