'Congress must fix this before considering any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this year,' said one advocate.
"Congress must fix this before considering any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this year," said one advocate.Privacy advocates on Wednesday said testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray at a U.S.
Wray said the bureau does not currently make such purchases, but acknowledged for the first time that it "previously, as in the past, purchased some such information for a specific national security pilot project," drawing on data "derived from internet advertising." Grassroots social welfare organization Demand Progress called Wray's admission "both shocking and further proof of the need for Congress to take immediate action to rein in mass surveillance."
The revelation came as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is scheduled to expire at the end of the year and as Congress is expected to soon begin debating its reauthorization.allows the U.S. government to conduct targeted surveillance of people in foreign countries, but intelligence agencies have also used the law to collect data on Americans.
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