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Biden signs bill criticized as “major expansion of warrantless surveillance”


FISA renewal requires more service providers to cooperate with government.

Advertisement Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he voted against the reauthorization "because it failed to include the most important requirement to protect Americans' civil rights: that law enforcement get a warrant before targeting a US citizen." The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law called the reauthorization "the largest expansion of domestic surveillance authority since the Patriot Act." "The bill, which would effectively grant the federal government access to the communications equipment of almost any business in the United States, is a gift to any president who may wish to spy on political enemies," said Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program.

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