{"id":55847,"date":"2024-04-15T01:58:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T01:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/us-house-approves-fisa-renewal-warrantless-surveillance-and-all\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T01:58:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T01:58:06","slug":"us-house-approves-fisa-renewal-warrantless-surveillance-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/us-house-approves-fisa-renewal-warrantless-surveillance-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"US House approves FISA renewal \u2013 warrantless surveillance and all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Infosec in brief<\/span> US Congress nearly killed a reauthorization of FISA Section 702 last week over concerns that it would continue to allow warrantless surveillance of Americans, but an amendment to require a warrant failed to pass.<\/p>\n

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has long been contentious for its provisions which indirectly allow surveillance of US citizens without a warrant. That’s why a group of Republican holdouts joined Democrats in the House this week to block<\/a> a floor vote on the bill to reauthorize the measure.<\/p>\n

The sticking point<\/a> was that FISA Section 702 only technically authorizes the US to spy on foreigners overseas considered a threat, but if those foreigners communicate with US citizens, then those citizens’ electronic communications can also be used for intelligence gathering.<\/p>\n