Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform, Part II
Of Interest 2016-09-26
Summary:
Location
United States
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Author(s):
Jennifer Granick
Publication Date:
September 22, 2016
Publication Type:
Other Writing
Last week, we argued that the public discussion surrounding two of the government’s most controversial mass surveillance programs – PRISM and Upstream – has not sufficiently acknowledged the broad scope of collection under these programs, which take place under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In short, hiding behind the counterterrorism justifications for section 702 is a broad surveillance program that sucks up massive amounts of irrelevant private data.