We find ourselves at this juncture every few years: Section 702 of the **Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)**, concerning Americans’ communications with foreign persons overseas, is due for renewal. Congress has the familiar options of reauthorizing it with or without changes, or simply allowing it to expire. It's crucial to seize this opportunity to examine this extensive government surveillance tool and push for necessary adjustments. That’s why it’s so important right now to urge your Member of Congress not to pass any bill that reauthorizes Section 702 without substantial reforms. [Take action](https://act.eff.org/action/congress-has-until-april-20-to-take-action-on-702-tell-them-not-to-drop-the-ball) TELL congress: 702 Needs Reform ### The Problem with Section 702 Section 702 is plagued with issues, loopholes, and compliance failures that demand attention. The **National Security Agency (NSA)** collects entire conversations of surveillance targets abroad and stores them. This allows the **Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)** to operate with a "finders keepers" mentality, justifying the review of already collected conversations. The FBI can then query and even read the U.S. side of that communication without a warrant. Critically, individuals subjected to this surveillance often remain unaware and have limited means of discovering it. The **EFF** and other civil liberties advocates have been trying for years to know when data collected through Section 702 is used as evidence against them. ### No Excuse for a Clean Reauthorization There’s simply no excuse for any Member of Congress to support a "clean" reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do so does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop. The intelligence community and its defenders in Congress, as always, seem more interested in defending their rights to read your private communications than in protecting your right to privacy. **It’s not really a compromise between safety and privacy if it's always your privacy that gets sacrificed.** Now, we’re drawing a line in the sand: Congress cannot pass a clean extension. **Use this EFF tool to write to your Member of Congress and tell them not to pass a clean reauthorization of Section 702.** [Take action](https://act.eff.org/action/congress-has-until-april-20-to-take-action-on-702-tell-them-not-to-drop-the-ball) TELL congress: 702 Needs Reform