Civil Liberties Groups Urge House Judiciary to Probe US Surveillance Collection
The House Judiciary Committee should hold public hearings so intelligence officials can disclose how many Americans have had their information collected under Section 215 of the USA Freedom Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 39 civil…
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liberties groups wrote Monday. Section 215 allows NSA and foreign intelligence investigators to collect Americans' calls and text messages related to terrorism or espionage activity. Section 702 allows collection of non-Americans' online communication for foreign intelligence-gathering purposes, which has resulted in incidental collection of American data. The USA Freedom Act requires NSA report the “number of ‘unique identifiers’ that have been collected under the Section 215,” New America’s Open Technology Institute wrote. The groups included the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Democracy & Technology, Color of Change, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center and TechFreedom.