US Congress passes 10-day extension of surveillance law amid Republican infighting

“The shameful midnight smash-and-grab attempt to steal away Americans’ privacy rights failed,” said Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the security and surveillance project at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “Surveillance boosters tried to sneak a sham proposal through in the dead of night because they know they’ve lost the substance of this debate.” The only way forward, he said, was a warrant rule that will “close the backdoor search loophole and protect Americans from surveillance abuse”...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/congress-fisa-extension-warrantless-surveillance-law

 

GOP holdouts not giving up on amendments to Section 702 extension - Live Updates - POLITICO

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) is seeking consideration of an amendment to the bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, that would prevent data brokers from selling information to the federal government, according to text of the provision obtained exclusively by POLITICO...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/14/congress/gop-holdouts-not-giving-up-on-amendments-to-section-702-extension-00871419

Why Congress is fighting over a central tool of American surveillance : NPR

But a number of lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, are concerned that FISA 702 allows for the federal government to spy on the communications of American citizens without a warrant, violating their constitutional right to privacy…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5768270/what-to-know-about-section-702-surveillance