{"id":68076,"date":"2024-05-16T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68076"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:50:47","slug":"the-warrantless-surveillance-bill-renewal-is-even-broader-than-many-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68076","title":{"rendered":"The Warrantless Surveillance Bill Renewal Is Even Broader Than Many Noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Warrantless Surveillance Bill Renewal Is Even Broader Than Many Noticed<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, amended in 2008), as a whole and its Section 702 in particular have been a \u201cgift that keeps on giving\u201d where all manner of controversies are concerned.<\/p>\n

In late April, it was time to once again\u00a0reauthorize this legislation<\/a>\u00a0whose privacy safeguards have been routinely bypassed by law enforcement for years, and this did happen, with persistent major points of contention being warrantless access to data belonging to Americans (and respect for their constitutional rights).<\/p>\n

The issue this time surfaced in a provision that changed the definition of electronic communications service providers (ECSPs) \u2013 in terms of which companies fall under this category, that is, which providers are obligated to give the government access to communications.<\/p>\n

As things stand, more US businesses than ever would have to provide access to phones, Wi-Fi routers, and other equipment.<\/p>\n

This in April launched a debate in the\u00a0Senate<\/a>\u00a0around the scope of surveillance authorities \u2013 opponents were saying it significantly expanded them \u2013 yet in the end, they failed to stop the reauthorization (\u201cReforming Intelligence and Securing America Act\u201d).<\/p>\n

The question was left open with a \u201cpledge\u201d that it would be revisited down the line, and\u00a0now reports say<\/a>\u00a0that Congress is working to \u201cfix\u201d the problem through the Senate Intelligence Committee\u2019s annual intelligence authorization bill.<\/p>\n

The promise was originally made by Senator Mark Warner, who heads the committee when he assumed a major role last month in making sure the reauthorization bill passed without incorporating changes to the controversial provision.<\/p>\n

The Democrat was now speaking at the RSA security conference when he repeated that promise, saying that work is being done toward fulfilling it, and adding that he is \u201cabsolutely committed to getting that fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Warrantless Surveillance Bill Renewal Is Even Broader Than Many Noticed The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, amended in 2008), as a whole and its Section 702 in particular have been a \u201cgift that keeps on giving\u201d where all manner of controversies are concerned. In late April, it was time to once again\u00a0reauthorize this legislation\u00a0whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33879,6056,13015,5570,33878],"class_list":["post-68076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-fisa","tag-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-reclaim-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68077,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68076\/revisions\/68077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}