30.10.2015 - 16:09 [ Civil-liberties groups ask the government to detail surveillance statistics ]

The Daily Dot

The American Civil Liberties Union, Brennan Center for Justice, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and more than two dozen other groups want Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to declassify information about the government‘s use of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which authorizes surveillance of communications passing through the United States that include at least one non-U.S. „person“ (citizen or resident).