The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports a privacy victory this month: Section 702, a surveillance law that allowed United States intelligence agencies to spy on millions of Americans without warrants, has finally expired. Pitched to the public as a foreign intelligence tool over three decades ago, the law was repeatedly renewed by Congress despite documented abuses. Its lapse marks the first time in 35 years that Congress failed to reauthorize it—a watershed moment for digital privacy.

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