Tell Congress: No Clean Reauthorize Section 702.
There are no excuses for any Member of Congress who votes to pass a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do it does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is among the United States’ most infamous mass surveillance programs. Its ostensible purpose was to collect foreign intelligence information overseas for national security and counter-intelligence purposes, but it’s becoming heavily used as a warrantless way domestic law enforcement can sift through the U.S. side of those international communications.
The intelligence community and its defenders in Congress, as always, seem more interested in defending their rights to read your private communications than in protecting your right to privacy. We cannot afford any clean extension of an unchallenged warrantless surveillance system.