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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | April 27, 2026

Congress Must Reject New Insufficient 702 Reauthorization Bill

Speaker Johnson has introduced a new fig leaf over the American surveillance state, the Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act. Introduced with only days to go before Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) expires and the U.S. government loses one of its most invasive surveillance programs, the bill...

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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | April 10, 2026

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702

The intelligence community and its defenders in Congress, as always, seem more interested in defending their rights to read your private communications than in protecting your right to privacy. It’s not really a compromise between safety and privacy if it's always your privacy that gets sacrificed. Now, we’re drawing a...
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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | March 9, 2026

The SAFE Act is an Imperfect Vehicle for Real Section 702 Reform

The SAFE act, introduced by Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), is the first of many likely proposals we will see to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008–and while imperfect, it does propose a litany real and much-needed reforms Big...
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | October 22, 2024

How Many U.S. Persons Does Section 702 Spy On? The ODNI Needs to Come Clean.

EFF has joined with 23 other organizations including the ACLU, Restore the Fourth, the Brennan Center for Justice, Access Now, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation to demand that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) furnish the public with an estimate of exactly how many...

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Deeplinks Blog by Brendan Gilligan, Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn | April 11, 2024

Bad Amendments to Section 702 Have Failed (For Now)—What Happens Next?

Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted against considering a largely bad bill that would have unacceptably expanded the tentacles of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, along with reauthorizing it and introducing some minor fixes.
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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | September 22, 2023

Don’t Fall for the Intelligence Community’s Monster of the Week Justifications

In the beloved episodic television shows of yesteryear, the antagonists were often “monsters of the week”: villains who would show up for one episode and get vanquished by the heroes just in time for them to fight the new monster in the following episode. Keeping up with the...

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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | July 31, 2023

The White House Acknowledges the Pressure on Section 702, But Much More Reform is Needed

After months of continued public confirmation that Americans’ privacy is being violated by surveillance under Section 702, and widespread criticism from civil society, activists, surveillance-skeptical bipartisan congressional committees, and even the overly timid Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—a group of White House-appointed experts just flinched on renewing the law...
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn, Andrew Crocker | May 19, 2023

10 Years After Snowden: Some Things Are Better, Some We’re Still Fighting For

On May 20, 2013, a young government contractor with an EFF sticker on his laptop disembarked a plane in Hong Kong carrying with him evidence confirming, among other things, that the United States government had been conducting mass surveillance on a global scale. What came next were weeks of disclosures—and...

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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | May 18, 2022

New Surveillance Transparency Report Documents an Urgent Need for Change

The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has released its Annual Statistical Transparency Report disclosing the use of national security surveillance laws for the year 2021—and to no one’s surprise it documents the wide-ranging overreach of intelligence agencies and the continued misuse of surveillance authorities to spy on millions of Americans....

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