The National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance powers are soon up for renewal in Congress, which could continue to affect millions of Americans’ privacy. Lawmakers are hoping to pass the bill, which would allow the NSA to continue violating millions of American’s privacy, quickly to avoid resistance.
Many believe the NSA’s powers, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Security Act, to be unconstitutional because it allows the NSA to collect and read communications between millions of Americans without a warrant.
I just told Nancy Pelosi: #NSA #spying is unconstitutional. https://t.co/VkmIpwBjOx via @nuzzel thanks @granick #surveillance
— Paul Nemitz (@PaulNemitz) January 6, 2018
House Republicans are attempting to expand these powers even more. These new powers would include allowing the FBI to target citizens’ emails in NSA databases without a warrant.
Edward Snowden and the ACLU held a Reddit AMA on Wednesday discussing the bill, thus creating more awareness and causing the decision of the bill to be postponed.
Now, people all over the nation are joining together to pressure Congress to uphold the Fourth Amendment which states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
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