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Section 702 Surveillance Fight Pits the White House Opposite Reproductive Rights
Prominent advocates for the rights of pregnant people are urging members of Congress to support legislation that would ban warrantless access to sensitive data as the White House fights against it.
The National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonpartisan nonprofit based in Washington, DC, is pressing federal lawmakers to throw support behind an amendment this week aimed at closing off a legal loophole through which police and spy agencies routinely circumvent the courts, buying information traditionally shielded by the country’s constitution. A group of senior congressional aides told WIRED last month that discussions about the program have been plagued for weeks by “scare tactics” and disinformation campaigns, with intelligence officials privately using images of Hamas to imply a growing domestic threat. Police and intelligence agencies regularly purchase millions of dollars worth of sensitive information from data brokers each year, according to a December 2021 study of public records by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), a civil liberties-focused nonprofit.
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