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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · S. 1997 (Introduced in Senate) — To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to protect privacy rights, and for other purposes. · Sec. 14

Sec. 14. Limitation on technical assistance from electronic communication service providers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978

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Section 702(h)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1881a(h)(1) ) is amended— by redesignating subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)as clauses
(i)and (ii), respectively, and moving such clauses 2 ems to the right; by striking With respect to and inserting the following: Subject to subparagraph (B), in carrying out ; and by adding at the end the following: The Attorney General or the Director of National Intelligence may not request assistance from an electronic communication service provider under subparagraph
(A)without demonstrating, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the assistance sought— is necessary; is narrowly tailored to the surveillance at issue; and would not pose an undue burden on the electronic communication service provider or its customers who are not an intended target of the surveillance. An electronic communication service provider is not obligated to comply with a directive to provide assistance under this paragraph unless— such assistance is a manner or method that has been explicitly approved by the Court; and the Court issues an order, which has been delivered to the provider, explicitly describing the assistance to be furnished by the provider that has been approved by the Court. .
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