NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again.

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https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/14/in_brief_security/

IN BRIEF A US intelligence boss has asked Congress to reauthorize a controversial set of powers that give snoops warrantless authorization to surveil electronic communications in the name of fighting terrorism and so forth. NSA director General Paul Nakasone told the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board yesterday that the loss of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would mean American spies would "lose critical insights into the most significant threats to our nation" if allowed to lapse on December 31.

In his speech, Nakasone said Section 702 is "irreplaceable," and he provided several stories of the FBI and NSA cooperating using the law to stop terrorist plots and online attacks to justify his claim. Section 702 was added to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2008, and has long been a bone of contention between civil liberties groups arguing it's a gross privacy violation, and those who say that, if you're not a terrorist, surely a little harmless observation by Uncle Sam is okay.

NSA asks congress to reauthorize warrantless data collection

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