The government appears to have undertaken the program under the law in 2015 even as Congress was attempting to roll back surveillance of American citizens. If Fisa is being used for mass surveillance that creates a whole other problem.”“It’s hard to see how the Fisc [foreign intelligence surveillance court] found that to be constitutional,” she added. The other possible law in play is section 702 of Fisa, which the NSA used to justify its Prism program of dragnet surveillance. “It is a fact that collection under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has a significant impact on Americans’ privacy,” he wrote in a statement. The ODNI, the House judiciary committee, the Senate select permanent committee on intelligence, and the Senate judiciary committee did not return requests for comment.

Source: The Guardian October 06, 2016 12:59 UTC