{"id":1946815,"date":"2023-06-14T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-agencies-routinely-spy-on-phone-calls-texts-emails-of-american-citizens-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:29:04","slug":"federal-agencies-routinely-spy-on-phone-calls-texts-emails-of-american-citizens-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-agencies-routinely-spy-on-phone-calls-texts-emails-of-american-citizens-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"US agencies regularly monitor US citizens&#8217; phone calls, texts, and emails, according to experts."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-agencies-routinely-spy-on-phone-calls-texts-emails-of-american-citizens-experts-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1946815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Government&#8217;s Intrusive Surveillance of Americans<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Despite the Constitution\u2019s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits warrantless government searches, U.S. agencies are proving to be ever more intrusive in their routine surveillance of Americans\u2019 speech and activities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you concerned about the government&#8217;s violation of your privacy rights? Despite the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s prohibition of warrantless government searches, U.S. agencies are increasingly surveilling Americans&#8217; speech and activities without any evidence of a crime. Working with private companies and banks, agencies like the FBI are misusing laws against foreign terrorism to sift through the private data of millions of Americans. <\/p>\n<p>As Congress debates reauthorizing relevant sections of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that are set to expire this year, the libertarian Cato Institute held a four-day conference last week, which featured calls for major legal reforms by conservative and liberal speakers alike.<\/p>\n<h3>The Violations<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe violations that we\u2019ve seen have not just been epic in scale, but they\u2019ve also been persistent, over and over again,\u201d Jake Laperruque, a deputy director at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo put a human scale on this, what we\u2019re talking about is not just random typos or wrong clicks; we\u2019re looking at things like pulling up batches of thousands of political donors in one go, without any suspicion of wrongdoing,\u201d Laperruque said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had reports of journalists, political commentators, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberals-melting-down-ahead-of-elections-ben-shapiro-has-a-theory\/\" title=\"Liberals Melting Down Ahead Of Elections? Ben Shapiro Has a Theory\">domestic political party<\/a>; these compliance violations are the most worrisome type of politically focused surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Evidence of Abuse<\/h2>\n<p>Congressional debates about whether to renew Section 702 are coming amid numerous reports that the FBI and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-democrats-admit-they-expect-the-fbis-trump-raid-to-bait-people-into-violence\/\" title=\"Media, Democrats Admit They Expect The FBI\u2019s Trump Raid To Bait People Into Violence\">federal intelligence agencies<\/a> have abused the surveillance authority granted to them by this law. Critics say there is mounting evidence that federal agencies have been using laws, which were intended to target foreign terrorists, to conduct extensive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-agencies-routinely-spy-on-phone-calls-texts-emails-of-american-citizens-experts-say\/\" title=\"US agencies regularly monitor US citizens' phone calls, texts, and emails, according to experts.\">long-term domestic spying campaigns<\/a> on U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo prevent Section 702 from being used as an end run around [Fourth Amendment] protections, Congress did two things: It required the government to minimize the collection, sharing and retention of Americans\u2019 personal information \u2026 and it required the government to certify to the FISA court on an annual basis that it is not using Section 702 to try to access the communications of particular known Americans,\u201d Elizabeth Goitein, a senior director at New York University\u2019s Brennan Center for Justice, told conference attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat has become abundantly clear over the last 15 years is that these protections are not working,\u201d Goitein said. \u201cAll agencies that receive Section 702 data have procedures in place, approved by the FISA court, that allow them to run electronic searches \u2026 for the purpose of finding and retrieving the phone calls, text messages and emails of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A report by the Brennan Center for Justice states that \u201csince 2006, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Americans from some of the largest telecommunications providers in the United States, via a series of regularly renewed requests by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Rise of Data Brokers<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to attendees of the Cato Institute conference, Nathan Wessler, a director at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), detailed \u201cthe rise of data brokers\u201d that assemble enormous databases of photo IDs that they then sell to law enforcement for profit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany companies are selling face recognition algorithms to government and private industry buyers,\u201d Wessler said. \u201cThat might be state driver\u2019s license photos, arrest photos, federal passport photos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then there\u2019s another company, ClearView AI, which has been scouring the internet for billions of photos,\u201d he said. \u201cThe last I heard, they had a database of 30 billion photos of people from social media, from employer websites, from local newspapers, and anywhere else on the internet where there\u2019s a photo that might be attached to a name, building giant databases of face prints extracted from those photos, and selling that to police departments and other law enforcement around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, Wessler said, \u201cpresents a truly unprecedented ability for the government to instantaneously identify anyone in any situation and then take action without usually any kind of court oversight, and often in tremendous secrecy.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>House Works to Extend Section 702<\/h2>\n<p>On March 22, the House Intelligence Committee established a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-torches-nancy-pelosi-backed-proxy-voting-rule\/\" title=\"Kevin McCarthy Torches Nancy Pelosi-Backed Proxy Voting Rule\">bipartisan working group<\/a> to assess under what conditions Section 702 should be extended. Simultaneously, pressure to kill the provision is coming from people on both the left and the right who are concerned with a pattern of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-mounting-opposition-democrats-move-forward-on-stalled-justice-dept-nominee\/\" title=\"Amid Mounting Opposition, Democrats Move Forward on Stalled Justice Dept. Nominee\">civil rights violations<\/a> by federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Americans have rightfully lost faith in the FBI and the FISA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Fourth Amendment, US agencies are increasingly intrusive in their surveillance of Americans. 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