A judge has issued a ruling limiting the FBI’s use of data obtained from technology giants such as Apple, Google and internet service providers to gather private information on US citizens communicating with foreign governments.This raised renewed concerns about the overreach of surveillance powers granted to US agencies under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).Section 702 of FISA allows US agencies to access data to monitor foreign organisations, but once they have access to the information contained in that data, they may also search US citizens without an additional warrant.
FBI’s right to access Apple data will be limited
According to Wired, Judge DeArcy Hall ruled that this practice was illegal.He ruled that the FBI needs a prior warrant to conduct ‘backdoor’ searches of US citizens communicating with foreigners.Otherwise, Hall warned, law enforcement agencies would have the ability to collect communications without restriction and conduct searches at will.
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