1. United States
2. N.J.
3. Letter

As your constituent, I am deeply concerned about the government's use of Section 702 to justify spying on Americans' online communications without a warrant. The government has given itself a green light to invade our privacy, spy on us, and search our communications without a warrant and it is time to bring such surveillance back within constitutional grounds. I urge you to let Section 702 expire unless it is fundamentally reformed, which means requiring warrants before the government can search any communications of an American, as well as banning the government from buying data they would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Section 702 is rampant with abuse. The government has used it to conduct millions of warrantless backdoor searches through our phone calls, text messages, and emails. They have used it to spy on peaceful protesters, journalists, elected officials and their staff, and even campaign donors. Meanwhile, the internal auditing office designed to investigate potential abuses like this has been shut down by FBI Director Kash Patel. Legislation to reform Section 702 and to require a warrant before the government searches the communications of Americans is overwhelmingly popular and has bipartisan support. Our leaders should be strengthening protections against abuses of power - not reauthorizing the very law the government uses to violate our civil liberties. We cannot allow the federal government to further abuse their power and continue invading our privacy. Please protect our Fourth Amendment rights: Do not reauthorize Section 702 without critical reforms.