Senior U.S. government officials warned on Tuesday of serious national security risks if a key surveillance program set to expire this year isn't renewed, but declined to share specifics of cases in which it had been useful.
Enacted in 2008, the Section 702 statute of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows U.S. agencies to conduct warrantless searches of information of non-Americans living outside the United States, which includes communications carried out via U.S. telecom or email providers.
U.S. intelligence agencies used the 702 database to identify the hackers and recover most of the ransom funds, one senior official said. "Permitting 702 to lapse, or to see it renewed in a diminished or unusable form would really raise grave national security risks," another official said. "It's not just useful or important or helpful, but at this point, it is vital to addressing a wide array of national security challenges."
A group of 21 privacy and other rights organisations, including the U.S. nonprofit Center for Democracy & Technology, inissued on Monday urged Congress not to renew the law without "substantial reforms."
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