Section 702 allowed the government to collect foreign communications without a warrant, incidentally collecting the communications of U.S. citizens. In 2013 former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents to the media showing extensive government surveillance, including metadata collection from Verizon and the PRISM program’s access to major tech companies’ servers, further raising privacy concerns.
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