Donald Trump is demanding Congress ignore growing privacy concerns and push through a straight extension of the Section 702 spy program.
Section 702 is a foreign spy program that allows the government to collect communications of non-Americans located outside the United States. The catch, and where the privacy concerns come in, is that data from Americans gets swept up in the process. As a result, there were bipartisan efforts to add new restrictions to prevent the intelligence community from searching this program data for Americans without a specific warrant.
