1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Please vote no on any bill that includes a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Real reform is possible and has more support than ever. Several bills would do much more to rein in Section 702 surveillance and protect Americans’ privacy without hurting national security.  In the 18 years since the law was passed, the gathering and sale of private information by data brokers has exploded. If reauthorized as-is, Section 702 will not only let the federal government continue buying data to target political opponents and immigrant communities, as well as potentially monitoring pregnancies -- it will be turbo-charged by AI technologies to provide surveillance capabilities unprecedented in our history. The potential repercussions for our Constitutional freedoms are nightmarish. We live in a globalized society in which Americans are constantly communicating with people overseas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has proven many times over that they cannot be trusted with discretion to warrantlessly query communications collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Americans should not lose their constitutional rights to private communications because of a mass surveillance authority that provides federal law enforcement with backdoor access to them.  Please, reform Section 702.  Thank you,