1. United States
2. Utah
3. Letter

Vote against any extension of Section 702 that doesn't require a warrant before searching Americans' communications and close the loophole that lets agencies buy our personal data from data brokers. For nearly two decades, Section 702 has allowed intelligence agencies to sweep up Americans' calls, texts, and emails without a warrant whenever we communicate with the 350,000 foreign targets under surveillance. The government calls this "incidental collection," but there's nothing incidental about building a massive database of our private communications and then searching it without judicial oversight. The Fourth Amendment doesn't have a backdoor exception. The current extension to April 30 punts on real reform. Meanwhile, agencies circumvent even weak privacy protections by purchasing location data, browsing history, and other sensitive information from data brokers that they'd need a warrant to obtain directly. This isn't a hypothetical concern. It's happening now. I expect you to demand two non-negotiable reforms before any reauthorization: a warrant requirement for queries of Americans' data and a ban on government purchases of personal information from data brokers. National security and constitutional rights aren't mutually exclusive. Other democracies protect both.