United States of America: Terminated applicability of FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (HR6304)
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Terminated applicability of FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (HR6304)
On 31 December 2017, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 expired. The Act introduces the new Section 702 of FISA, which replaces the expired Protect America Act provisions. Section 702 authorises the US government to "target non-US persons, reasonably believed to be located outside the United States, in order to collect foreign intelligence information".
Original sourceScope
Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Government access to data
Regulated Economic Activity
cross-cutting
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament
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2008-06-19
under deliberation
2008-07-09
adopted
2008-07-10
in force