The number of FBI searches of a vast foreign intelligence repository for information about Americans and people in the United States plummeted over the last year from the prior 12 months, according to a U.S. government report released Tuesday.
and people in the United States plummeted over the last year from the prior 12 months, according to a U.S. government report released Tuesday.
The program, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, permits the U.S. government to collect without a warrant the communications of targeted foreigners located in other countries — including when those subjects are in contact with Americans or other people inside the U.S. , the Senate approved by a 60-34 vote a two-year extension of the program. President Joe Biden subsequently signed it into law.
The number a year before that — 2,964,643 — was significantly higher but the report attributes that spike in large measure to an FBI investigation involving attempted cyber intrusions of critical infrastructure during which analysts ran about 1.9 million queries of potential victims.
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