House Republicans blocked Trump's push to extend FISA surveillance powers, marking a rare defeat for the president and weakening Speaker Johnson's position.
https://worldbriefly.news/trump-suffers-rare-defeat-as-house-republicans-revolt-over-fisa-extension
"We're entering an era of automated, turbo-charged assaults on privacy – and as tech companies give the government new AI-driven means of monitoring Americans at a massive scale, we're also seeing a bipartisan resistance from elected leaders to update the privacy rules of engagement for a new future.
This dynamic was witnessed this past week in the bipartisan passage of an extension to a key spy bill, but also through a deluge of less-publicized privacy-eroding bills collectively defining a new era of government-obtainable user data.
Evolving Surveillance Threats
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, or FISA, has long served as a controversial pillar of how the U.S. conducts surveillance abroad. It allows federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to intercept the digital communications of foreign nationals located outside the United States without warrants, and is one of the most controversial pillars of modern surveillance policy.
At the center of FISA is a secretive court that reviews and approves government requests to conduct surveillance, without the knowledge of the person being monitored. While intended to target foreign individuals outside the United States, FISA surveillance inevitably sweeps more broadly. Because online networks are global, FISA surveillance can also extend to individuals who are not themselves under investigation. As a result, entirely domestic conversations can be collected, stored, and queried by intelligence agencies without requiring a traditional warrant.
Despite controversy over FISA, a bipartisan coalition within the U.S. House of Representatives just approved a three-year extension of the spy power program, declining to make any revisions."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/era-mass-surveillance-taking-shape-204900849.html
Google & Microsoft publient deux fois par an leurs rapports sur
les demandes gouvernementales de données. Mais derrière les
assignations ordinaires se cache une seconde couche : FISA 702,
le CLOUD Act et EO 12333 — des lois américaines qu'aucune
clause de résidence des données ne peut neutraliser.
Au H1 2025, les demandes FISA ont touché 177.000+ comptes
Google et 33.000+ comptes Microsoft.
Google & Microsoft publiceren twee keer per jaar rapporten over
overheidsverzoeken om klantgegevens. Maar achter de gewone
dagvaardingen schuilt een tweede laag: FISA 702, de CLOUD Act
en EO 12333 — Amerikaanse wetten waar geen enkele
dataresidutieclausule tegenop kan.
In H1 2025 betroffen FISA-verzoeken alleen al 177.000+
Google-accounts en 33.000+ Microsoft-accounts.
Google & Microsoft publish transparency reports on government
data requests 2x/year. But behind the country subpoenas
lies a second layer: FISA 702, the CLOUD Act, and EO 12333:
US laws that no data residency commitment can neutralise.
In H1 2025, FISA content requests alone affected 177,000+
Google and 33,000+ Microsoft accounts.
We analysed how these laws work and what they mean for Belgian
and EU sovereignty.
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Section 702 Vote Pushed Back Another Six Weeks Following GOP’s ‘But With Cryptocurrency Ban’ Failure
The administration isn’t exactly winning here. The GOP has been opposed to a clean reauthorization since its first brush with warrantless surveillance back during the Biden administration. GO…
O presidente Donald Trump sancionou a prorrogação de 45 dias da Lei de Vigilância de Inteligência Estrangeira (FISA). A decisão ocorre após o Senado não aprovar a proposta enviada pela Câmara.
• Vigência: +45 dias
• Foco: Inteligência
• Status: Decisão oficial
6 week extension granted.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/fisa-warrantless-spying-renewal-congress
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