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Date: 2001-12-19

US: FISA wird uns ficken


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Der Patriot Act war für den internen Gebrauch gedacht, die nun
folgende Novellierung des Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
[FISA] sieht penetrierende Notfallmaß/nahmen für internationalen
Datenverkehr vor.

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Just weeks after passage of comprehensive anti-terrorism
legislation, Congress continues to tinker with the laws governing
electronic monitoring. An appropriations bill awaiting the
President's signature provides for increased governmental
surveillance capabilities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA), increasing the authorities recently broadened by the
USA PATRIOT Act passed in October (see EPIC Alert 8.21).

H.R. 2883 expands "roving wiretap" authority by amending the
location provision in FISA, which currently requires agents to
identify the location of the instrument to be monitored. The
amendment requires identification of location only "if known."
Roving wiretap authority under FISA was established by the USA
PATRIOT Act to allow the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC) to issue generic orders to any communications provider,
thereby permitting the government to track the communications of
a specific individual carried over a variety of sources. The new
amendment permits the FISC to issue orders permitting
government surveillance of communications where neither the
provider nor the location of the communication device is specified.

Under current law, the Attorney General may authorize electronic
surveillance or a search without a court order in an emergency. In
such instances, the government must present a formal application
to the FISC within 24 hours of the Attorney General's authorization.
The new legislation extends the time in which the government
must present a formal order to 72 hours. It also contains various
technical amendments to the USA PATRIOT Act.

The bill, which was the result of a House-Senate conference,
specifies four priority areas in the nation's intelligence capabilities:
(1) revitalizing the National Security Agency; (2) correcting
deficiencies in human intelligence; (3) addressing the imbalance
between intelligence collection and analysis; and (4) rebuilding a
robust research and development program.

H.R. 2883, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002,
is available at:

http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/hr2883.html

EPIC's Wiretap Page:

http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/
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