Under the pretext of targeting foreigners abroad, Section 702 has become a vehicle for unconstitutional, warrantless backdoor searches of Americans' private communications. The FBI conducts up to 3.4 million illegal backdoor queries in a single year.
Security guards and law enforcement personnel are usually the first professionals to provide help in a public emergency and as a result, also experience some of the highest rates of workplace violence in any occupation.
An unidentified foreign hacker broke into the FBI's field office in New York in 2023 and compromised files related to the bureau's investigation into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to Reuters. The hack took advantage of a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI's New York Field Office that was left inadvertently vulnerable by an FBI special agent working on the case.