Adam Klein

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Adam Klein is Director of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Until June 2021, he served as Chairman of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent federal agency that oversees counterterrorism and intelligence programs.

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Surveillance

Today’s Big News About “Backdoor Searches”

One of the most hotly debated aspects of Section 702 is the practice of querying 702-acquired data using U.S.-person identifiers—in particular, queries conducted by the FBI in non-national-security criminal investigations. Some label these “backdoor searches,” although the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has held that such queries are not searches that trigger the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement.