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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA, Pub. L. 95–511, 92 Stat. 1783, 50 U.S.C. ch. 36) is a United States federal law that establishes procedures for the surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence on domestic soil.
The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), also called the FISA Court, is a U.S. federal court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008, also called the FAA and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, [1] is an Act of Congress that amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [2] It has been used as the legal basis for surveillance programs disclosed by Edward Snowden in 2013, including PRISM. [3]
Most of us had never heard of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) until sometime after September 11, 2001, even though the act has been around since, well, 1978, when ...
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign nationals living outside the U.S. without needing to obtain a ...
With just days to go before it expires, it now looks like Section 702 of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—which compels communications service providers to hand over loads ...
The FISCR was established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (known as FISA for short) and consists of a panel of three judges. Like the FISC, the FISCR is not an adversarial court; rather, the only party to the court is the federal government, although other parties may submit briefs as amici curiae if they are made aware of ...
A board of intelligence advisers warned failure to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could be “one of the worst intelligence failures of our time,” while ...