US President Biden renewed Section 702 of FISA, extending warrantless surveillance on non-Americans for two years.

US President Joe Biden renewed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), extending the authorisation to monitor & collect data from non-Americans, including Europeans, without warrants for two more years. This section, introduced in 2008, legalised the NSA's international mass surveillance program PRISM. US tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google must provide access to non-American users' accounts without a judge order.

June 01, 2024
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