{"id":1849,"date":"2023-03-09T10:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2023-03-09T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:40:23","slug":"the-coming-fight-over-the-governments-surveillance-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"The coming fight over the government\u2019s surveillance powers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-1850\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26.png 730w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26-293x191.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26-390x254.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve been warned: a fight over the government\u2019s ability to spy on its own citizens is coming to Congress. Section 702 is up for renewal again in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Section 702 grew out of an illegal post-9\/11 program called Stellarwind, exposed by NSA whistleblower Tom Drake. It refers to a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that was enacted in 2008. It authorizes the government to collect the communications of non-Americans located outside of the United States for the purpose of obtaining foreign intelligence information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/thespectator.com\/topic\/the-coming-fight-over-the-governments-surveillance-powers\/\">https:\/\/thespectator.com\/topic\/the-coming-fight-over-the-governments-surveillance-powers\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been warned: a fight over the government\u2019s ability to spy on its own citizens is coming to Congress. Section 702 is up for renewal again in December. Section 702 grew out of an illegal post-9\/11 program called Stellarwind, exposed by NSA whistleblower Tom Drake. It refers to a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that was enacted in 2008. It authorizes the government to collect the communications of non-Americans located outside of the United States for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-liberty","category-threat-to-america"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}