Privacy, Civil Liberties Groups Ask Clapper To Disclose Information on FISA Section 702
A coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Thursday, asking him to “disclose information on the impact that Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] has had inside…
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the U.S.,” a TechFreedom news release said. The letter was signed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Cyber Privacy Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, R Street, Restore the Fourth, the Sunlight Foundation and the World Privacy Forum, and several others. In it, the groups ask Clapper to “disclose an estimate of the number of communications involving U.S. residents that are subject to surveillance, the number of times the FBI has used U.S. person identifiers to query Section 702 data, and the policies governing how agencies notify individuals that they intend to use information derived from Section 702 surveillance.” Since the FISA Amendments law is set to expire at the end of 2017, “this information is key to evaluating the decisions Congress will finally have to make about reforming over-broad surveillance,” TechFreedom Policy Counsel Tom Struble said.