A new report revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) secretly collected the personal information of over three million Americans.
Government agencies can gather foreign intelligence after obtaining a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant. Section 702 of FISA says: “The Attorney General (AG) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) may jointly authorize the targeting of (i) non-U.S. persons (ii) who are reasonably believed to be outside of the United States (iii) to acquire foreign intelligence information”.
However, a FISA warrant can result in American citizens being spied on, especially if they communicate with foreigners who are the targets of investigations.
Previously, data on the number of American citizens that have been spied on as a result of FISA warrant was concealed. But in 2020, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the watchdog for federal surveillance, ruled that the Office...
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