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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 5491 (Introduced in Senate) — To mobilize United States strategic, economic, and diplomatic tools to confront the challenges posed by the People’s... · Sec. 323

Sec. 323. Inclusion of surveillance technology abuse in human rights report

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The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq. ) is amended— in section 116 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151n ), by adding at the end the following new subsection: The report required under subsection
(d)shall to the extent feasible include a description of the use of foreign commercial spyware by the government of each country in which there are systematic acts of political repression, to conduct surveillance, including passive or active monitoring, against activists, journalists, opposition politicians, or other individuals for the purposes of suppressing dissent or intimidating critics. In this subsection, the term foreign commercial spyware means the term referred to in section 6318 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 ( Public Law 117–263 ). ; and in section 502B ( 22 U.S.C. 2304 )— by redesignating the second subsection designated subsection
(i)as subsection (j); and by adding at the end the following new subsection: The report required under subsection
(b)shall to the extent feasible include a description of the use of foreign commercial spyware by the government of each country in which there are systematic acts of political repression, to conduct surveillance, including passive or active monitoring, against activists, journalists, opposition politicians, or other individuals for the purposes of suppressing dissent or intimidating critics. In this subsection, the term foreign commercial spyware means the term referred to in section 6318 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 ( Public Law 117–263 ). .
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