The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider legislation Wednesday that would add a warrant requirement to a powerful spy authority, sharpening a divide between privacy-minded lawmakers and the Biden administration.
The markup would be the first committee vote this year on legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the U.S. government to collect the digital communications of foreigners who are located outside the country.
The surveillance authority expires at the end of the year. The debate has centered around the ability of the FBI to search through data collected under the program, without a warrant, for information about Americans using information such as an email address.
