Congress faces a critical decision on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law that permits the NSA and FBI to collect phone calls, emails, and internet communications from Americans without individual warrants, provided one party is reasonably believed to be foreign. The statute, set to expire unless reauthorized, has become a focal point for privacy advocates who argue that previous "clean extensions" have enabled exponential mission creep—particularly concerning how bulk-collected data now flows into AI systems for pattern matching, predictive analysis, and automated decision-making. Civil liberties organizations are signaling they will not accept another reauthorization without concrete legislative safeguards addressing this emerging threat vector.