New Poll: Nearly 4 in 5 Americans Support Strong Surveillance Reform

​With Congress extending the reauthorization of FISA Section 702 until April, the debate over surveillance can be expected to fire up again when Members return in January. As Members relax and reorient over the holidays, we urge them to take a moment to listen to what the American people are saying.
 
The conservative FreedomWorks and the progressive Demand Progress, both highly respected advocacy organizations with deep grassroots, came together to conduct a national poll on the public’s approval of specific measures. Some of these measures are in the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act passed by the House Intelligence Committee, and some in the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, passed 35-2 by the House Judiciary Committee.
 
Across the board, Americans overwhelmingly support the provisions in the Protect Liberty Act.
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• 78 percent support Congress strengthening privacy protections (in Protect Liberty Act, but not in the FISA "Reform" and Reauthorization Act).
  
  
• 76 percent support Congress requiring a warrant before Americans' international communications are searched by government agencies (in Protect Liberty Act, but not in the FISA “Reform” and Reauthorization Act).
  
  
• 80 percent support Congress requiring a warrant before purchasing Americans’ location and internet records from data brokers (in Protect Liberty Act, but not in the FISA "Reform" and Reauthorization Act. 

 
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, writing in The Wall Street Journal, declared that, “in the wake of serious FISA abuses, our fidelity must be to the Constitution, not the surveillance state.” The FreedomWorks/Demand Progress poll shows that the American people agree.