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liberties advocates want to narrow the scope of an amendment to a controversial surveillance law. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-article__cover-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"single-article__cover\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course.jpg?resize=640%2C426&ssl=1\" class=\"single-article__cover-image wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-4.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-4.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, 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Ron Wyden, D-Ore., spoke to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2022. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"70.534175130387\"><body readability=\"144.61621621622\"><\/p>\n<p>When the House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/house-passes-extension-of-expiring-surveillance-authorities\/\">voted to extend<\/a> a controversial surveillance law last week, lawmakers tacked on a vaguely written amendment that expanded the scope of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Its vague language served a purpose \u2014 to avoid tipping off U.S. adversaries about systems the American intelligence agencies planned to target. <\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, a press report revealed the amendment\u2019s goal \u2014 to give spy agencies the ability to target cloud computing data centers under the law \u2014 and that has civil liberties advocates arguing that Congress can now move to narrow the measure. <\/p>\n<p>The amendment adopted last week would, if passed into law, broaden the definition of \u201celectronic communication service providers\u201d required to furnish data under Section 702, prompting privacy groups and some lawmakers to warn that it could force a much wider swath of organizations to assist U.S. government surveillance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwillgen.com\/law-enforcement\/fisa-702-reauthorization-amendments-second-time-not-charm\/\">Critics argue that<\/a>, as written, it could require everyone from building landlords to delivery personnel to comply.<\/p>\n<p>But debate around the measure has been limited because lawmakers have only been able to discuss its details behind closed doors for classification reasons, and it wasn\u2019t until The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/16\/us\/fisa-surveillance-bill-program.html\">reported Tuesday<\/a> that the amendment\u2019s goal was to clarify whether cloud computing data centers have to cooperate with Section 702 that its intended purpose became a matter of public record.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwillgen.com\/law-enforcement\/fisa-702-reauthorization-amendments-second-time-not-charm\/\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The provision has spurred at least one senator, Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon, to threaten to do everything in his power to prevent the bill from becoming law. But with congressional authorization for the Section 702 surveillance tools currently set to expire Friday, the Biden administration is pushing the Senate to act quickly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t want people to know what they were going after,\u201d said Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Brennan Center for Justice\u2019s Liberty & National Security Program, so lawmakers wrote it in \u201cenigmatic terms\u201d that led to the provision amounting to a \u201ckitchen sink\u201d of affected organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe practical effect is that this allows the government to compel assistance from an enormous swath of U.S. businesses,\u201d Goitein said. \u201cIt is staggeringly irresponsible to write something this broad, such a massive expansion of surveillance power, just to avoid tipping people off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that everybody knows we\u2019re talking about\u201d adding data centers to the list of entities that have to turn over data under Section 702, \u201cif the administration wants to add data centers for cloud computing, that\u2019s what they should attempt to do\u201d in Congress, she argued.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates for the amendment have said it wouldn\u2019t permit a wide expansion, but they\u2019ve not been able to give a detailed answer on the problem it\u2019s meant to address.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A senior Justice Department official told CyberScoop on Monday that the classified nature of the matter made it hard to discuss, but said the amendment stems from a court decision last year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been significant changes in communications technology that have taken place since the law passed in 2008,\u201d the official said. \u201cThe intent of the amendment is to update the definition of an [electronic communication service provider] to encompass new types of services offered by electronic communication providers that do not fall within the current ECSP definition.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The official said that a ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last year involving an ECSP \u201cwell within the existing definition\u201d had \u201cconcluded that a specific type of service it was offering was not covered by the definition and that only Congress could change that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasingly, we\u2019ve seen adversaries most concerned about routing their communications outside of the existing backbone communication service providers using service providers inside the United States that transmit and store communications in a way that doesn\u2019t rely on traditional ECSPs that were contemplated when the statute was first enacted,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Authored by the heads of the House Intelligence Committee \u2014 Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and Jim Himes, D-Conn. \u2014 the amendment, as adopted, did carve out exceptions for restaurants, hotels and some other facilities. A senior administration official said Tuesday that other \u201cfar-fetched examples\u201d wouldn\u2019t be allowed under the law\u2019s targeting procedures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A group that represents top tech companies is nonetheless worried about whom it could impact. The Information Technology Industry Council\u2019s John Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itic.org\/news-events\/techwonk-blog\/expansion-of-fisa-electronic-communications-service-provider-definition-must-be-removed\">wrote on Tuesday<\/a> that the expanded definition of electronic communication service provider must be removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the effects of this amendment may be unintentional, its impacts would be very real,\u201d wrote Miller, the senior vice president of policy, trust, data, and technology and the general counsel for the group. \u201cThe language in the amendment vastly expands the U.S. government\u2019s warrantless surveillance capabilities, damaging the competitiveness of U.S. technology companies large and small, and arguably imperiling the continued global free flow of data between the U.S. and its allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wyden\u2019s office suggested that as written, the provision could be stretched to affect the communication of journalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government suspects that Journalist X communicates with Foreign Official Y, perhaps because Y is quoted in X\u2019s story,\u201d a Wyden aide said via email, outlining the hypothetical. \u201cThe government uses the Turner provision to conscript someone who can get access to X\u2019s laptop to extract all communications with Y.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not reverse targeting under the current definition because the government has an interest in Y,\u201d the aide said, referencing Section 702\u2019s prohibition on targeting people overseas as a way of actually conducting surveillance on U.S. persons. \u201cIt\u2019s not a search requiring a FISA warrant because 702 is the exception to the warrant requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The DOJ official said not getting a renewed law in place by Friday could cause problems for the program, despite the FISA court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/nsd\/media\/1346981\/dl?inline=\">one-year certification<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know from experience that we would be facing an uncertain legal environment if the authority would lapse,\u201d the official said. \u201cAs what happened in 2008 when a predecessor statute to 702 lapsed, we may see that providers, the private sector companies that are subject to receiving directives, might challenge whether they\u2019re still covered. The consequence is that we lose collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatePPG\/status\/1780293949527060784\">took a procedural step<\/a> on Tuesday to set the gears in motion for the chamber to take action on the Section 702 legislation.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"2.0443181818182\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"12\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Tim Starks\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Tim Starks<\/h4>\n<p> Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. 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(Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header class=\"post-item__meta\" readability=\"1.7766990291262\">\n<h3 class=\"post-item__title\"> <a class=\"post-item__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/702-fisa-surveillance-house-vote\/\"> Renewal of controversial surveillance law screeches to a halt in the House <\/a> <\/h3>\n<p> Lawmakers defeated a procedure allowing debate on extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/tim-starkscyberscoop-com\/\"> Tim Starks <\/a> <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <\/header>\n<p> <\/article>\n<article class=\"post-item post-item--popular-stories-cards \">\n<figure class=\"post-item__thumbnail\"> <a class=\"post-item__thumbnail-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/house-hurtles-toward-showdown-over-expiring-surveillance-tools\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"242\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course.webp?resize=242%2C168&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-ratio-16-9-sm size-ratio-16-9-sm wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=300,208 300w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=768,533 768w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=1024,711 1024w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=1536,1066 1536w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=600,417 600w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=242,168 242w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=485,337 485w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=972,675 972w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/with-a-mysterious-surveillance-target-identified-calls-for-congress-to-change-course-6.jpg?resize=1214,843 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\"> <\/a><figcaption class=\"screen-reader-text\"> U.S. House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) (L) and House Intelligence Ranking Member Jim Himes (D-CT) speak following a briefing with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the U.S. Capitol on February 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. 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