After months of continued public confirmation that Americans’ privacy is being violated by surveillance under Section 702, and widespread criticism from civil society, activists, surveillance-skeptical bipartisan congressional committees, and even the overly timid Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—a group of White House-appointed experts just flinched on renewing the law without reforms. It’s good to see even the White House signal that improvements are needed, but it was immediately undermined by the tininess of their proposed changes.
The White House might suddenly be willing to acknowledge that people in the U.S. are sick of having their digital communications harvested and accessible to domestic law enforcement without a warrant, but the review group’s proposed reforms are just a cheap political consolation prize that will do very little to restore the fundamental right to privacy that has been denied to people on U.S. soil who email or call friends or family abroad.
For example, the 42–page report recommends that the FBI no longer be allowed to search 702 databases when investigating non-national security related crimes. In its current iter
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