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in support of renewing the surveillance tools known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, set to expire at the end of this year.A prominent privacy concern that emerged at that hearing is the FBI warrantlessly accessing the Section 702 database of collected communications with searches using Americans’ identifiers, such as their names or email addresses.
“This is the most significant challenge in this reauthorization cycle,” Olsen told me. “I do think that there are other paths forward to address the legitimate concerns that people have about how the FBI has implemented the program the past few years. We’ve taken a number of steps already to address that. I think there are additional steps we could take, and that we’re happy to engage with Congress on what those are.
, there was some senatorial skepticism about the administration’s pitch last week. But Olsen said he thought the examples were “compelling” to lawmakers.“I think the debate has shifted significantly from in the first few months, where even some of the less supportive members begin by saying there’s no doubt that 702 has significant value,”E.U.
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