Fisa Section 702

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Fisa section 702. This law was passed in 2008 to legalize president george w. Section 702 title vii section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act fisa procedures for targeting certain persons outside the united states other than united states persons 50 u s c. Under section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act fisa the u s.

Government engages in mass warrantless surveillance of americans and foreigners phone calls text messages emails and other electronic communications. That law amended the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978. Section 702 is a surveillance authority passed as part of the fisa amendments act in 2008.

Information collected under the law without a warrant can be used to prosecute and imprison people even for crimes that have nothing to do with national security. 1881a x this authority allows only the targeting for foreign intelligence purposes of communications of foreign persons who are located abroad. Collection of foreign intelligence from non americans located outside the united states.

Foreign surveillance the fisa amendments act also added a new title vii to fisa which contained provisions similar but not identical to provisions in the protect america act of 2007 which had expired earlier in 2008. Bush s warrantless wiretapping program. President donald trump threw twitter and members of congress into a tizzy thursday morning when he tweeted a back and forth with himself about section 702 of the foreign intelligence.

In 2008 congress passed a set of updates to the foreign intelligence surveillance act fisa including section 702 which authorized warrantless surveillance of non u s. Section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act fisa is a statute that authorizes the collection use and dissemination of electronic communications content stored by u s. Section 702 is supposed to do exactly what its name promises.

However documents leaked by edward snowden revealed that 702 was being used far more heavily than many expected serving as the legal basis for the. Telecom providers such as at t and verizon.