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“When federal officials break biometric surveillance limits, courts and officials should be able to respond by keeping illegally gathered information out of federal cases, allowing lawsuits, awarding damages and legal fees, letting states sue for residents, and disciplining responsible federal workers?”
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“Government use of devices that mimic cell towers to locate phones should need strict court or foreign-intelligence approval, narrow time and area limits, and steps to reduce harm to nearby people, while private use should generally be banned except for allowed research.”
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“Government agencies should need comparable court process before forcing data brokers or other third parties to hand over protected digital records, and judges should use the strongest privacy standard that applies to the request.”
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“Federal agencies should not be able to buy, keep, access, use, or rely on covered remote biometric surveillance in the United States unless Congress later approves a specific use and sets safeguards for it.”
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“Officials asking the FISA Court for surveillance should have to share important facts that support or weaken the request, document factual claims and source reliability, and keep full written records of Justice Department contacts with the court.”
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“Agencies asking the FISA Court for surveillance approval should give judges a fuller and better-checked record, keep written records of court contacts, avoid steering requests to favored judges, and allow outside legal or technical experts to help test important cases.”
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“Secret surveillance requests should be checked carefully, especially when they involve people in the United States.”
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“People should get notice when evidence would not have been obtained without FISA surveillance, FISA courts should decide disputes over access to their own records, and certain surveillance lawsuits should be able to proceed with judges privately reviewing secret materials when needed.”
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“FISA court work and surveillance programs should leave more written records, make major court opinions more available to the public when possible, and give Congress and watchdogs more information about how FISA and Section 702 are used.”
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“Law enforcement should need stronger legal approval to get location data, browsing history, search queries, communications records, and provider-held data, and should not be able to buy certain personal data from brokers to avoid legal-process limits.”
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“Law enforcement and intelligence agencies generally should not buy sensitive communications, location, or wrongly obtained personal information from data brokers, and should face limits on using, sharing, or keeping data obtained through a banned purchase.”
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“Police and intelligence agencies should not be able to buy protected digital records or wrongly obtained personal data from data brokers or other third parties, and other agencies should not be able to buy it for them.”
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“Police and intelligence agencies should not be able to pay data brokers or other third parties for covered private digital data, or get that data through another government office that bought it for them.”
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“The government should not avoid strong court-order protections by seeking sensitive records through another party, and companies that deliver, store, or process communications for others should have clearer limits on when they may disclose information.”
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“Government agencies should not use these customer-record subpoenas to watch, investigate, gather information about, or punish people for constitutionally protected activities such as speaking, worshiping, reporting, protesting, or petitioning the government.”
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“People should face stronger consequences for knowingly misleading FISA courts, wrongly disclosing FISA applications, disobeying FISA court orders, or committing unlawful FISA actions that harm others.”
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“Internet and cloud infrastructure companies that transmit, store, or process communications should not knowingly share stored message contents or give government agencies user, sender, or recipient records unless an allowed legal process or exception applies.”
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“Service providers should be allowed to tell affected customers about these subpoenas and talk to a lawyer, while government instructions to providers should clearly say when a court order limits customer notice.”
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“Federal courts and executive officials should report more information about surveillance tools, Section 702 targeting and U.S.-person searches, compliance problems, criminal uses of Executive Order 12333 information, and estimates of how many U.S. people’s communications Section 702 collects.”
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“Federal agencies that use these administrative subpoenas should publish yearly reports showing how many they issued and how many customer accounts they received information about, grouped by the legal authority used.”
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“When agencies get protected data through a banned purchase or sharing workaround, courts and other official bodies should keep that data and evidence learned from it out of proceedings, and agencies should have to limit keeping or sharing it?”
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“Biometric surveillance limits should cover tools that identify people from a face, voice, walking pattern, or similar body trait, while treating fingerprints and palm prints differently for this purpose.”
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“Digital privacy protections should cover account records, subscriber records, communication content, and location data tied to people in the United States and some U.S. persons abroad, while leaving out public information, certain background-check data, and license plate reader data.”
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“Section 702 should continue through September 30, 2027 only with limits that stop indirect targeting of people in the United States, prevent collection of messages that merely mention a target, block warrantless domestic collection, and delete most Americans' data within five years.”
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“The government should need stronger checks before it searches foreign intelligence data for information about people in the United States.”
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“FBI searches tied to elected officials, candidates, political groups, news media, religious groups, or Members of Congress should get higher approval, legal review, or notice to congressional leaders.”
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“Federal agencies should usually need a warrant to search Section 702 data for U.S. people or people in the United States, should not target foreign people mainly to reach them, should avoid warrantless domestic communications collection, should delete most covered U.S.-person information after five years, and should limit later legal use to specified serious threats.”
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“Government subpoenas for these customer records should have to identify the person or account being sought by a name, address, temporary network address, or account ID such as a username.”
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“Stricter federal, state, and local biometric surveillance limits should remain allowed, and states or local governments could lose Byrne public safety grants unless they follow a law or policy substantially similar to the federal ban on covered biometric surveillance.”
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“Government agencies should no longer be able to use a simple subpoena to get one category of phone or app-based call and text records.”
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“Watchdogs should review more surveillance programs, agencies should report EO 12333 violations and limit how long they keep some Americans' data, Congress should be told about immunity for help with warrantless surveillance, and intelligence employees who misuse Americans' information should face consequences.”
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“Surveillance programs should be checked often, and the public and Congress should get enough information to judge whether the rules are working.”
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“Government agencies should have to give the provider a sworn statement that a customer-record subpoena has a lawful purpose and is not aimed at protected activity, and the request should be blocked if that statement is missing.”
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“Agencies should face stronger limits before searching Section 702 data for information about U.S. persons or people in the United States, including limits on who may search, when a warrant is needed, when narrow exceptions apply, and what records must be kept.”
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“Officials should usually need a warrant or FISA court order before targeting Americans or people in the United States for foreign-intelligence surveillance, or before searching Section 702 or EO 12333 databases for their messages or information.”
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