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Introduced March 5, 2026 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress March 5, 2026
This bill strengthens privacy and oversight by restricting warrantless queries and government purchases of commercial data and increasing FISC/congressional transparency, but it also tightens rules and procedures in ways that may slow urgent investigations, impose costs and litigation risks, and create operational uncertainty for agencies and providers.
People in the U.S. (all taxpayers and users of online services) gain stronger limits on the government's ability to acquire and use commercially purchased or third‑party data: agencies generally cannot buy or use records obtained for consideration, improperly obtained data is inadmissible in prosecutions, and DOJ must adopt minimization, retention, and dissemination limits.
U.S. persons see stronger restrictions and oversight on Section 702 searches and provider directives: warrantless queries are limited to narrow exceptions, metadata-query results cannot be used alone to access communications, FISC amicus access is expanded, FISC and Congress get notification and quarterly reports, directives are more narrowly targeted, and covered opinions face declassification/aw
Extending FISA exclusivity for domestic collection of U.S. persons' communications and sensitive data creates a uniform legal standard and places domestic foreign‑intelligence acquisition more squarely under FISC oversight and judicial review.
Law enforcement and intelligence investigators could be hindered because limits on accessing commercially acquired third‑party data (and requirements that many such acquisitions be obtained under FISA) may slow or block timely criminal and national‑security investigations.
Requiring FISA orders or other formal processes for a wide range of data types (location, browsing, search history, etc.) and adding reporting/declassification/FISC review can slow intelligence collection and introduce operational delays for urgent cases.
Increased reporting, FISC review, declassification, and expanded amicus/litigation pathways will raise operational burdens and could delay urgent actions or add costs for agencies and providers responding to surveillance orders.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits broad warrantless searches of foreign-intelligence collections for information about U.S. persons and sharply limits government purchases or swaps of consumer records from data brokers. It adds new definitions, reporting, and court-review requirements for queries of Section 702-acquired data, narrows which communications providers can receive compulsory collection directives, expands the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s use of privacy-focused amici, and makes improperly acquired third-party records inadmissible in court. The measure also requires new Attorney General compliance reviews, agency minimization procedures, and additional notifications and reports to the FISC and Congress.