Sec. 3. Public disclosures of aggregate information related to orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978
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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Except as provided under subsection (c), a person that has received an order under section 105, 402, or 501, or an order or a directive under section 702, 703, or 704 may, every six months with respect to the preceding six month period, disclose to the public information with respect to each statutory authority as follows: The total number of orders or directives received under the authority.
The percentage or total number of such orders or directives complied with, in whole or in part. The total number of individual persons, users, or accounts whose information of any kind was produced to the Government, or was obtained or collected by the Government, under an order or directive received under the authority. Except as provided under subsection (c), a person that has received an order under section 402 or 501, or an order or a directive under section 702 may, every six months with respect to the preceding six month period, disclose to the public the total number of individual persons, users, or accounts for whom the following information was produced to the Government, or was obtained or collected by the Government, with respect to each such authority, if applicable:
The contents of electronic communications. The contents of wire communications. Records concerning electronic communications. Records concerning wire communications. Information described in subparagraph (A), (B), (D), (E), or
(F)of section 2703(c)(2) of title 18. If the total number of individual persons, users, or accounts specified in paragraph
(3)of subsection
(a)or in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), or
(5)of subsection
(b)is fewer than 500, it shall exclusively be expressed as a numerical range of fewer than 500 and shall not be expressed as an individual number. No cause of action shall lie in any court against any person for making a disclosure in accordance with this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed— to authorize or in any other way affect the lawfulness or unlawfulness of using an order or directive described in subsection
(a)to obtain, collect, or secure the production of information described in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), or
(5)of subsection (b); or to prohibit, implicitly preclude, or in any other way affect the lawfulness or unlawfulness of a disclosure not authorized by this section. In this section: The terms contents , electronic communication , and wire communication have the meanings given those terms in section 2510 of title 18, United States Code. The term individual person means any individual and excludes any group, entity, association, corporation, or governmental entity. The term person has the meaning given that term in section 101. . The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 is amended— in section 402(d)(2)(B)(ii)(I) ( 50 U.S.C. 1842(d)(2)(B)(ii)(I) ), by inserting except as permitted by section 901, before shall not disclose ; and in section 501(d) ( 50 U.S.C. 1861(d) )— in paragraph (1)— in subparagraph (B), by striking or at the end; in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon and or ; and by adding at the end the following: the public as permitted by section 901. ; and in paragraph (2)(A) by inserting subparagraph (A), (B), or
(C)of after pursuant to . The table of contents in the first section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: TITLE IX—Public disclosures of aggregate information Sec. 901. Public disclosures of aggregate information. .
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