Mon Jun 26, 2023 – 10:35 am EDT
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(Reclaim The Net) — A document, an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that recently became publicly available proves once again that fears that the court’s activities are resulting in mass scale privacy violations in the U.S., carried out by the FBI, are justified.
For this reason, they are urging either the scrapping of the legislation the FISC is based on – the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), specifically its Section 702 (added to the Act in 2008) – or introducing deep reforms of the law.
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The FISA act is supposed to allow for harvesting information for intelligence purposes from foreigners, who are not protected by the Fourth Amendment’s provision against unreasonable searches.
But critics have been warning for a long time that what Section 702 does, however, is provide a loophole that lets agencies collect communications from millions of Americans too, including directly from the likes of Google, Facebook, etc.
The main issues arising from the way FISA is
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