The FBI’s director refuses to say how much data it collects on US citizens
Anyone looking to discover new revelations of data collected under Section 702 were left sorely disappointed. In fact, possibly the biggest overarching takeaway from the hearing was just how little lawmakers, or the public, know about the type or scale of data colled under the FISA program. US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Chair Sharon Bradford Franklin told lawmakers they “don’t actually know the scope of this [data] collection,” and said that the FBI specifically refused to provide concrete figures, or even an estimate, on the amount of communications iti collects on US citizens. The FBI, according to Franklin, said that process would be “infeasible.”
