Tag: FISA

gorodenkoff/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Friday the U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure allowing for warrantless surveillance of citizens. BREAKING IN WASHINGTON: The House has voted 273-147 to extend FISA Section 702 warrantless surveillance authority until 2026, surpassing the April 19 deadline. Americans will now be spied on without the need for a warrant, thanks to a push by Speaker ...

FBI employees and agents inappropriately searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a state senator and a U.S. senator, said a court opinion that was released Friday. The newly disclosed finding is included in the release of a 117-page order (pdf) declassified on July 16 by the federal judiciary’s foreign intelligence surveillance court in April—a rare move as that court ...

FBI conducted as many as 3.4 million U.S. person queries of Section 702 data in one year and used FISA data in Jan. 6 investigations News Analysis The FBI’s use of warrantless “backdoor searches” of a vast amount of information known as the Section 702 database—which is intended for targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States—to spy on ...