Some digital rights groups urge EU to step in and push for new privacy protections for people outside the U.S. Congress will almost certainly extend the provision in some form. Some lawmakers have pushed for changes in FISA that would restrict so-called backdoor searches of residents’ communications collected during foreign surveillance. The law allows the NSA to target any foreign person, not just foreign powers or their agents. But experts say the Fourth Amendment protections do not apply to people from other countries. Congress will have a “detailed, thorough, and careful examination” of the law, says Rep. Goodlatte.”]

