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Apr 23, 2026 10:30 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Description The Path to Reauthorizing Section 702 of FISA Thursday, April 23, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 am ET Last week, Congress passed a 10-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), pushing the sunset date to April 30. As Congress considers the future of FISA Section 702 and weighs potential privacy reforms ahead of that deadline, this bipartisan briefing will help distill legislative proposals, key reforms, and recent developments. Section 702 of FISA was enacted in 2008 to broaden the scope of FISA, authorizing the government to collect the communications of non-U.S. persons located abroad. In practice, however, Americans’ communications are frequently swept up in these collections and later accessed through warrantless queries. As Congress considers reauthorization, it is important to protect Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights by closing the backdoor search and data broker loopholes. We will be joined by former Congressman and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte (now with the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability), Liza Goitein, senior director of the Brennan Center for Justices’ Liberty & National Security Program, Don Bell, policy counsel at The Constitution Project at the Project on Government Oversight, and and Molly Powell, Senior Policy Analyst at Americans for Prosperity. The panel will be moderated by Amanda Beckham, Government Relations Director with Free Press. Panelists:
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