4.8.26 FISA Section 702: Risks, Reforms, and the Road Ahead

The briefing will cover Section 702 of FISA, which allows intelligence and law enforcement agencies to search through billions of warrantlessly acquired international communications. These agencies compel electronic communications companies to hand over the data of non-U.S. persons (meaning non-U.S. citizens or residents) outside the U.S. Many Americans’ Fourth Amendment-protected conversations are swept up “incidentally.” Our briefing will also discuss the data-broker-loophole, which allows the U.S. government to purchase Fourth Amendment-protected data directly from data brokers who harvest data from companies such as Verizon, AT&T, and Meta.