The House just reauthorized Section 702 of FISA for another three years. And while most of the outrage is (rightfully) about warrantless surveillance of Americans, there's a quieter implication nobody's talking about: AI companies that collect and store user data are now de facto targets of government access requests.

If your AI app stores chat logs, health queries, therapy transcripts, legal documents — anything a user typed to your model — that data is now more exposed than it was last week.

Let's talk about what this actually means in practice.

The Surveillance Problem Has a Developer Face

Section 702 lets the government compel U.S.-based companies to hand over communications from foreign targets. The problem is "incidental collection" — Americans who communicated with those targets get swept up.

For AI teams: your user data sits in databases, vector stores, fine-tuning datasets.…