Only more than 57,000 searches were conducted by the FBI on the database of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2023, representing an over 50% decrease in queries from the previous year that a senior FBI official said was due to the agency’s internal reforms, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. However, foreign targets of Section 702 surveillance rose from 246,073 in 2022 to 268,590 in 2023 while court-approved wiretap and physical search order targets increased from 417 to 759 during the same period, a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence showed.

Source: SC Magazine