House Releases Bill to Reauthorize Controversial Spy Powers

Published on February 12, 2024

The House released a bill on Feb. 12 to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, namely a controversial aspect of it related to the surveillance of people abroad. The legislation makes a series of wide reforms to the FISA spying authority, which has come under increasingly heavy scrutiny since it was last reauthorized in 2018. Last year, Congress extended the authority, which was set to expire at the end of 2023, until April 2024. The bill, if passed, would reauthorize the spying authority for a term of five years. Since its reauthorization in 2018, FISA has consistently made headlines for abuses, leading many staunch privacy rights advocates in Congress to call for wide-ranging reforms—or its abolition altogether....

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