Big Tech Squares Off Against US Spies

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One of Silicon Valley's most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration–backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.

A trade organization representing some of the world’s largest information technology companies—Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft among them—say its members are voicing strong opposition to ongoing efforts by the Biden administration to dramatically expand a key US government surveillance authority. The US Senate is poised to vote Thursday on legislation that would extend a global wiretap program authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act .

” More concisely: The court reminded the government that only Congress has the power to rewrite the law. The US Intelligence Community thus began a campaign to ensure that this year’s legislation reauthorizing the 702 program redefines “ECSP” to address what it calls a “collection gap resulting from recent court opinions.

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