A crucial US surveillance tool, Section 702 of FISA, has expired due to a bipartisan failure in Congress to extend it. Despite a court order allowing its continuation for another year, the lapse highlights ongoing debates over privacy and national security.
The FSB reports a pattern where high-ranking Russian officials are first targeted by foreign intelligence services, then subjected to US and EU sanctions. This involves phone hacking, compromising material collection, and subsequent sanctions, with intelligence used for direct pressure.
China’s state secrets authority warned that foreign spies use elaborate cover stories and technology to collect sensitive data. The first episode of a five-part CCTV documentary cited a case in Dalian involving disguised monitoring equipment.
FBI suspects foreign spies may be targeting scientists with access to government secrets.
