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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 4051 (Introduced in Senate) — To improve the ability of law enforcement agencies to access encrypted data, and for other purposes. · Sec. 501

Sec. 501. Electronic surveillance within the United States for foreign intelligence purposes

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Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended— in section 101 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 ), by adding at the end the following: Technical assistance includes— isolating all communications or information authorized to be acquired; decrypting, decoding, or otherwise providing in an intelligible format the communications or information authorized to be acquired, unless the independent actions of an unaffiliated entity make it technically impossible to do so; and delivering all communications or information authorized to be acquired securely, reliably, and concurrently with their transmission. ; and in section 105(c)(2)(B), by striking produce a minimum of interference with the services that such carrier, landlord, custodian, or other person is providing that target of electronic surveillance and inserting in a manner designed to minimize the possibility of alerting the target whose communications are to be intercepted .
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