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Section 702 is expiring at the end of the month but whether or not it gets re-authorized by a bill called RISSA is likely going to the floor of the house NEXT WEEK. IF you care about privacy and surveillance, contact your house member and say you want real surveillance and fisa and 702 reform, and that they should only vote for RISSA if three good amendments from the judiciary committee pass, and three bad ammendments from the intellegence committee fail.

The good judiciary ammendments would: requiring fbi obtain a warrant before querying 702 data, close data broker loophole, prohibit restarting "abouts" collection. All good things.

Intel committee ammendments are really bad. expands the definition of Foreign Intelligence Information to include counternarcotics, Unnecessarily expands suspicionless vetting of immigrants, including people allready in in the United States, and Includes one of the biggest expansions of surveillance in recent history, or what Rep. Lofgren calls "Patriot Act 2.0," by expanding the categories of businesses that can be subject to a *gagged directive* under Section 702

This has been an incredibly annoying issue to track and mobilize around because things are moving quickly and behind the scenes but just raising the issue helps. Even if you think your house rep sucks on everything else, its worthwhile to reach out on this issue. Its hard to know where people stand when folks from trump-land and the squad are both calling for reform.