{"id":207508,"date":"2026-04-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/ai-is-supercharging-the-surveillance-state\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:20:09","slug":"ai-is-supercharging-the-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/ai-is-supercharging-the-surveillance-state\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/2026\/04\/30\/ai-supercharging-surveillance-state-congress-fisa-section-702\/\">AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/2026\/04\/30\/ai-supercharging-surveillance-state-congress-fisa-section-702\/\">https:\/\/prospect.org\/2026\/04\/30\/ai-supercharging-surveillance-state-congress-fisa-section-702\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 15:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"prospect.org\">prospect.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>House Speaker Mike Johnson passed a three-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with help from Democratic colleagues, including 41 Democrats who opposed reauthorization for privacy reasons.<\/li>\n<li>To appease Republican hard-liners, the extension included a ban on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), despite opposition from Senate Democrats and potential doom in the Senate.<\/li>\n<li>Despite vocal support from some, such as Rep. Jim Himes, Section 702 allows for warrantless searches of American citizens\u2019 communications, raising significant privacy concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Ron Wyden wants to implement warrant requirements and prevent the use of AI for warrantless searches; he proposes declassifying the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion to keep the program temporarily active.<\/li>\n<li>Congress appears behind technology trends, like AI, and insufficiently addressing the issue of warrantless surveillance, prompting calls for reform from Sen. Wyden and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State https:\/\/prospect.org\/2026\/04\/30\/ai-supercharging-surveillance-state-congress-fisa-section-702\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-30 15:00:00 Source Domain: prospect.org House&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prospect.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Baratta-on-Tap-043026.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207510,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207508\/revisions\/207510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}