Congress Grants 10-Day Lifeline to Warrantless FISA Section 702 Surveillance Power

"Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702" "In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight!" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702 #Privacy

TL;DR: A bipartisan group of lawmakers has secured a 10-day extension to push for significant reforms to Section 702, which currently allows the FBI to access Americans' communications without a warrant. Advocates stress the need for real privacy protections to counter the government's mass surveillance practices. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702 #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

⚡ NEWS US Congress Temporarily Extends Controversial FISA Surveillance Power The US Congress has temporarily extended a controversial surveillance provision under FISA, which allows intelligence agencies to collect citizen data without a warrant. The measure has faced long-standing criticism regarding privacy violations. 📰 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/17/us-congress-temporarily-extends-controversial-surveillance-power-under-fisa?traffic_source=rss #USA #Geopolitics #GeoWire

Last night, a clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702 was blocked in the House. Congress passed a 10-day stopgap instead, pushing the expiration to April 30. Privacy is on the legislative agenda right now. A separate bill, the Surveillance Accountability Act, would close the "third-party doctrine" loophole that lets US federal agencies buy bulk data on Americans from brokers without a warrant. Contact your Rep. https://www.surveillanceaccountability.com/ #Surveillance #Privacy #Congress #Bill

FISA Section 702 reauthorization was blocked in the House. Congress passed a 10-day stopgap pushing expiry to April 30. The surveillance law enabling warrantless NSA data collection lives in legislative limbo. Privacy gets a 10-day stay of execution. The surveillance state never permanently loses — it just gets renewed later. #privacy #surveillance #FISA Source: https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116421899240309627 The last thing we need in tech is a government controlled LLM whose whole purpose is to find zero days that the government can then exploit for mass #surveillance, #censorship or other unconstitutional invasions of #privacy. Because you know they won't disclose them, they'll hoard them like they're already doing.

Embattled Congresspeople standing up for privacy need our help. Write to their colleagues and tell them we need real reforms in Section 702. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/58706638