{"id":108402,"date":"2025-04-15T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/?post_type=insight&#038;p=108402"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:23:24","slug":"cdt-submits-statement-urging-house-judiciary-to-close-loopholes-on-warrantless-government-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"insight","link":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/insights\/cdt-submits-statement-urging-house-judiciary-to-close-loopholes-on-warrantless-government-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"CDT Submits Statement Urging House Judiciary to Close Loopholes on Warrantless Government Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 8th, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/continued-pattern-government-surveillance-us-citizens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">held a hearing to discuss warrantless surveillance issues<\/a>. At the hearing, members and witnesses across the political spectrum highlighted the dangers of warrantless surveillance, and actions Congress should take to place checks on government surveillance powers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On April 15th, CDT <a href=\"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-04-15-CDT-Jake-Laperruque-Statement-for-HJC-Surveillance-Hearing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submitted a statement<\/a> for the record, highlighting three critical issues: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Closing the &#8220;Backdoor Search Loophole&#8221; that allows warrantless queries for Americans&#8217; communications collected through Section 702 of FISA; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Closing the &#8220;Data Broker Loophole&#8221; to stop law enforcement from buying data that should require a warrant to obtain; and <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why restoring the independence of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is key to oversight of government surveillance and preventing abuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(Additionally, a witness at the hearing \u2013\u00a0Gene Schaerr,\u00a0General Counsel for the Project for Privacy &amp; Surveillance Accountability \u2013 included as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/schaerr-testimony_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his written testimony<\/a> a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cdt.org\/insights\/debunking-myths-on-the-national-security-impact-of-warrants-for-u-s-person-queries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently-released<\/a> CDT and PPSA joint issue brief, entitled <em>Debunking Myths on the National Security Impact of Warrants for U.S. Person Queries.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-04-15-CDT-Jake-Laperruque-Statement-for-HJC-Surveillance-Hearing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full statement of record.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":108408,"template":"","content_type":[522],"area-of-focus":[806,799],"class_list":["post-108402","insight","type-insight","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content_type-testimony","area-of-focus-government-surveillance","area-of-focus-us-surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight\/108402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insight"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight\/108402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108409,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight\/108402\/revisions\/108409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_type?post=108402"},{"taxonomy":"area-of-focus","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area-of-focus?post=108402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}