On April 10, 2026, Americans for Prosperity submitted a letter to Members of Congress calling for urgent reforms in any reauthorization of FISA Section 702.
FISA Section 702 allows non-U.S. persons to be targeted for surveillance and for their communications to be collected and searched. While Americans cannot be the “target” of the search, their personal messages can nonetheless be “incidentally collected.” Due to the nature of modern communications, 702 created a dragnet catching personal communications of almost every American. They are stored in a database which can be searched by intelligence agents. Sold as a national security tool, Section 702 is now a mass domestic surveillance program.
A FISA Section 702 reauthorization bill must include reforms to protect Americans’ rights. The backdoor search loophole must be closed by requiring a warrant being running searches on Americans. In order to make this a meaningful reform, we must close the data broker loophole, which allows the government to buy their way around the Fourth Amendment by purchasing data from third party brokers.
Americans should not be asked to choose between national security and their Constitutional rights.
You can read AFP’s letter to Congress below.
