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“Companies that help the government intercept communications in an emergency without a court order should get lawsuit protection only until the interception ends, a court denies the request, or 48 hours pass, whichever happens first.”
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“Congress should keep foreign intelligence surveillance powers only if they have strong privacy limits and clear end dates.”
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“The government should have to use established federal surveillance laws, including FISA, for domestic surveillance and many U.S.-connected communications records, location data, browsing history, search history, and warrant-level information, while leaving some foreign-only intelligence work outside those paths.”
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“Government surveillance should have to use the named federal surveillance laws, including FISA where it applies, for electronic surveillance, domestic communication interceptions, communications records, location data, browsing history, search history, and similar warrant-protected digital information.”
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“Federal workers who violate covered surveillance rules should face set accountability procedures.”
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“FISA applications should include stronger fact-checking, supporting records, contrary information, and source reliability details; Justice Department communications with the FISA Court should be written down; and people should get clearer notice when FISA-derived evidence is used against them.”
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“Officials asking the FISA Court for surveillance orders should have to include important facts on both sides, certify their fact-checking, get judicial approval of the accuracy process, and face limits or penalties for serious false or incomplete filings.”
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“Officials should give the FISA courts complete and accurate information and face real consequences if they misuse surveillance powers.”
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“The FISA Court should more often bring in outside privacy, civil-liberties, and technical experts for major surveillance cases, give those experts enough access to test important issues, and review significant decisions for public release when classified details can be protected.”
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“Secret surveillance courts should hear independent views and share more legal information when it can be done without exposing real security risks.”
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“The government should have to say when evidence came from FISA collection and should not be able to hide that origin by rebuilding the same case through other steps.”
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“The government should have clearer limits on when it must use FISA for covered surveillance, and some foreign-intelligence activities outside FISA should face safeguards when they involve U.S. persons, people in the United States, domestic communications, protected data, retention, or reverse targeting.”
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“Companies should only be forced to help with secret surveillance under clear rules, court oversight, and notice to Congress.”
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“Some foreign intelligence work outside FISA electronic surveillance rules should remain allowed when Congress has clearly authorized it or when it involves only non-U.S. persons outside the United States.”
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“The government should keep foreign surveillance powers only if there are strong rules for searches involving people in the United States.”
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“An old transition rule connected to former Section 215 bulk-records authority should end after 180 days.”
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“An older carryover authority for FISA business-records requests should end instead of staying available for qualifying older or transitional matters.”
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“Section 702 should stay in place only with tighter rules on when the government can look at Americans' data and how long it can keep it.”
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“Officials should usually need legal approval before accessing sensitive Section 702 information about U.S. persons or people believed to be in the United States, should keep most searches focused on foreign intelligence, and should not target someone overseas as a workaround to gather information about a known protected person in the United States.”
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“Officials should need training, written reasons, records, approvals for sensitive searches, court approval before reading many U.S. person messages, and checks against using foreign targets as a back door to people in the United States.”
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“Section 702 should remain available for foreign intelligence collection until April 20, 2030, rather than expiring sooner.”
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“Section 702 and related FISA surveillance powers should stay in effect until December 31, 2035 instead of expiring sooner.”
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“Agencies should keep detailed records of who searches Section 702 data, what they search for, and why, and should delete many records about protected people after five years unless a specific legal reason allows keeping them.”
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“People in the United States should have clearer rules for showing enough injury to bring a federal lawsuit over certain surveillance-related acquisition, copying, searching, retention, access, or use of their information.”
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“Inspectors General, civil-liberties overseers, Congress, courts, agencies, and companies should share more information about how surveillance powers are used, where errors happen, how often data is searched or unmasked, and how often FISA orders reach companies.”
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“Officials should need a warrant or strong legal reason before searching foreign intelligence databases for information about people in the United States.”
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