Comment Re:And? (Score 2, Informative) 34
Yeah.. You need a legal basis to force companies to violate their customers' privacy.
Their basis for attempting to extend this further is shady as fuck.
The Law provides that existing orders will continue to be in effect, so they convinced the Special court that administers this law to hand them a blanket order that allows the intelligence gathering to continue past the end date of the law.
These transition procedures provide that any
order, authorization, or directive issued pursuant to Title VII shall remain in effect until its stated
expiration date. Consequently, if Title VII sunsets, the government can continue acquiring foreign
intelligence under Section 702 until any existing FISC authorization expires, and the FISC can continue
administering previously authorized acquisition procedures under Section 702.
Recent FISC Authorization
News outlets have reported that, on April 5, 2024, the FISC authorized government foreign intelligence
acquisitions under Section 702 for one year. If reports are accurate, the effect of this authorization is that
the government can continue foreign intelligence acquisitions under Section 702 until the authorization
expires one year from when it was issued, regardless of whether Title VII sunsets on April 19, 2024. In
addition, the FISC can continue administering authorized acquisition procedures under Section 702 until
the authorization expires.