The government’s annual transparency report disclosing the warrantless data searches began in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s 2013 disclosures of the government spying on Americans. Snowden is pictured here at a November 2019 event in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) Spy report: 3.4M warrantless searches of US data under FISA last year The 3.4 million searches the ODNI disclosed Friday represent a significant increase from last year. May 2, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley