Is The Patriot Act Still In Effect 2025. While fisa limited the federal government’s surveillance capabilities to foreign actors, the patriot act vastly expanded surveillance permissions, establishing the ability to surveil us persons. Several controversial provisions of the patriot act—the law that vastly expanded national security surveillance in the wake of the september 11 attacks—are set to expire on march 15 unless congress passes a new bill.

This week marks 10 years. Surveillance law after divisions over whether the fbi should be restricted from using the program to search for.