Intelligence Community Warned Congress on FISA 702 Deadlines, But Some Democrats Have Doubts The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 is a surveillance program used by US intelligence agencies to collect foreign intelligence information from communications between foreign targets outside the United States and their agents inside the country.
The program has been at the center of controversy in recent years due to concerns about mass surveillance, individual civil liberties, and national security.
The intelligence community recently warned Congress that looming deadlines for FISA 702 authority renewal threaten to severely limit US intelligence agencies' ability to collect foreign intelligence information from communications crossing into the United States.