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Privacy board recommends renewing Section 702 spying powers

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FBI agents ought to get spy court approval before reviewing US persons' chats, board reckons

A privacy panel within the US government today narrowly recommended that Congress reauthorize the Feds' Section 702 spying powers — but with some stronger protections for US citizens only.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board voted 3-2 on party lines to support all 19 recommendations in the Section 702 report, including one that would tighten rules on FBI agents to get approval from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to review Americans' electronic communications.

The board also said it would support legal action requiring probable cause as the standard for court approval before federal agencies can run"Although the Section 702 program presents serious risks to, and actual intrusions upon, the privacy and civil liberties of both Americans and non-Americans, the United States is safer with the Section 702 program than without it," the panel said in a report...

 

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