3.0.0 1452 2023-01-11T13:23:24Z 2023-01-11T13:23:24Z Senate S S 2013-08-01 113 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing ssju23 Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee Hearings by 2013-11-13T19:56:41Z Referred to 2013-08-01T20:38:17Z Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 113 1621 S 2013-10-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2013-11-13 ssju23 Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee Senate Committee on the Judiciary Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-365. Committee 2013-08-01 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2013-08-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000457 Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] Al Franken D MN N L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT 2013-08-01 True U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM 2013-08-01 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2013-08-01 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2013-08-01 True U000038 Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO] MARK UDALL D CO 2013-08-01 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2013-08-01 True T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT 2013-08-01 True M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2013-08-01 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2013-08-01 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2013-08-01 True H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD 2013-09-18 False C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2013-10-29 False S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH 2014-01-08 False Armed Forces and National Security Business records Congressional oversight Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Government information and archives Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Armed Forces and National Security 00 2013-08-01 Introduced in Senate 2013-09-10T19:50:04Z Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to expand government reporting requirements with respect to surveillance programs under FISA and the USA PATRIOT Act. Permits persons (any individual, including any officer or employee of the federal government, or any group, entity, association, corporation, or foreign power) receiving certain production orders to make public disclosures regarding the categories of orders to which they complied and the total number of users whose information was produced.

Directs the Attorney General to report annually to Congress, in an unclassified form to be made available to the public, regarding orders approving electronic surveillance, pen register and trap and trace devices, the production of tangible things (commonly referred to as business records, including books, records, papers, documents, and other items), and the targeting of persons outside the United States other than U.S. persons.

Sets forth the details to be included in various reports, including:

  • the total number of applications made for orders and number of such orders granted, modified, or denied;
  • good faith estimates of the total number of individual persons (any individuals, excluding any group, entity, association, corporation, or governmental entity) whose tangible things or electronic or wire communications information were obtained or produced;
  • good faith estimates of the total number of U.S. persons (U.S. citizens or aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence) whose information was obtained and the number of such persons whose information was subsequently reviewed or accessed by a federal officer, employee, or agent;
  • the total number of computer-assisted search queries initiated by the federal government in certain databases under specified orders and the number of such queries whose search terms included information from a U.S. person; and
  • the number of subscribers or customers of an electronic communication service or remote computing service whose tangible records were produced and the number of such persons whose records were subsequently reviewed by the federal government.

Requires certain totals, when the total number is fewer than 500, to be expressed as a numerical range of "fewer than 500" instead of as an individual number.

Directs the Attorney General to submit an annual certification confirming that in the course of the preceding year no orders entered for the production of tangible things were used to obtain the contents of an electronic or wire communication.

Permits persons and other entities receiving specified production orders to disclose, every six months: (1) the total number of orders received and the percentage or total number of orders with which they complied; (2) the total number of individual persons, users, or accounts whose information of any kind was produced to the government or was obtained or collected by the government; and (3) with respect to specified categories of orders, the total number of individual persons, users, or accounts for whom the contents or records of electronic or wire communications, including certain subscriber records of remote computing services, were produced to the government or were obtained or collected by the government.

Provides immunity from court actions to such persons and entities making voluntary disclosures under this Act.

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