Relaxation of privacy policies paved the way for FBI and NSA to spy on AmericansThe FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA), under the Obama administration, committed numerous violations of procedures intended to safeguard Americans’ personal data and communications collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Under the section, which was part of amendments to FISA passed in 2008 under President George W. Bush, the intelligence community has broad powers to collect internet and telephone data to spy on foreign nationals. Procedures to protect Americans’ data collected under the program were weakened under President Barack Obama...