Congress weighs proposals to renew key surveillance authority as deadline looms - Roll Call

With just over a month until a key spy authority expires, lawmakers face conflicting proposals about how far Congress should go in providing privacy protections to American information collected under the program.

Discussions about reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this year have centered on when national security authorities should be able to search for information on Americans.

But the first proposals have only recently been publicly released, and they contain differing visions about what policies should be added to the program before it is renewed.