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Court rules FBI's warrantless searches violated Fourth Amendment
Rights groups demand lawmakers add a warrant requirement to Section 702.
A warrant requirement could help truly end backdoor searches, the EFF suggested, and ensure "that the intelligence community does not continue to trample on the constitutionally protected rights to private communications." The ACLU warned that reforms are especially critical now, considering that unconstitutional backdoor searches have been "used by the government to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans, including protesters, members of Congress, and journalists." "As the court recognized, the FBI's rampant digital searches of Americans are an immense invasion of privacy and trigger the bedrock protections of the Fourth Amendment," Toomey said.
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