{"id":17230,"date":"2017-07-02T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T21:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=17230"},"modified":"2017-07-02T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T21:04:22","slug":"congress-needs-to-end-warrantless-spying-not-make-it-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/07\/02\/congress-needs-to-end-warrantless-spying-not-make-it-permanent\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Needs to End Warrantless Spying, Not Make It Permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lawmakers are getting serious about renewing the U.S. government\u2019s Internet spying powers, so we need to get serious about stopping their bad proposals.<\/p>\n

First out of the gate is a bill from Sen. Tom Cotton, an ardent defender of government surveillance. His bill would not just reauthorize, but make permanent the expiring measure that the government says justifies the warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans\u2019 online communications\u2014Section 702, as enacted by the FISA Amendments Act. His bill (S. 1297) is supported by several Republicans in the Senate, including Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr and Sens. John Cornyn, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n

Section 702 surveillance\u00a0violates the privacy rights of millions of people<\/a>. This warrantless spying should not be allowed to continue, let alone be made permanent as is.<\/p>\n

As originally enacted, Section 702 expires every few years, giving lawmakers the chance to reexamine the broad spying powers that impact their constituents. This is especially crucial as technology evolves and as more information about how the surveillance authority is actually used comes to light, whether through government publication or in the press.<\/p>\n

If Congress were to approve Cotton\u2019s bill, lawmakers would not only be ignoring their constituents\u2019 privacy concerns, but they would also be ceding their obligation to regularly review, debate, and update the law. That is not acceptable.<\/p>\n

Luckily, there\u2019s already opposition to the proposal to make Section 702 permanent. During recent hearings at the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees on Section 702 surveillance, Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u2014who has historically been sympathetic to the intelligence community\u2014said she could not support a bill that makes Section 702 permanent.<\/p>\n

Now we need other members of Congress to make the same stand. We cannot accept lawmakers ignoring our privacy concerns and their responsibility to review surveillance law, and our lawmakers need to hear that.<\/p>\n


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Sign our petition<\/a>\u00a0today and tell Congress to oppose S. 1297 and the permanent reauthorization of Section 702 spying.<\/p>\n

TAKE ACTION<\/a><\/p>\n

TELL CONGRESS TO END WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Congress Needs to End Warrantless Spying, Not Make It Permanent | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawmakers are getting serious about renewing the U.S. government\u2019s Internet spying powers, so we need to get serious about stopping their bad proposals. First out of the gate is a bill from Sen. Tom Cotton, an ardent defender of government surveillance. His bill would not just reauthorize, but make permanent the expiring measure that the government says justifies the warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans\u2019 online communications\u2014Section 702, as enacted by the FISA Amendments Act. His bill (S. 1297) is supported by several Republicans in the Senate, including Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr and Sens. John Cornyn, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham. Section 702 surveillance\u00a0violates the privacy rights of millions of people. This warrantless spying should not be allowed to continue, let alone be made permanent as is. As originally enacted, Section 702 expires every few years, giving lawmakers the chance to reexamine the broad spying powers that impact their constituents. This is especially crucial as technology evolves and as more information about how the surveillance authority is actually used comes to light, whether through government publication or in the press. If Congress were to approve Cotton\u2019s bill, lawmakers would not only be ignoring their constituents\u2019 privacy concerns, but they would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1245,1678],"class_list":["post-17230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}