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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection
Under the proposal, they said, the N.S.A. would end its systematic collection of data about Americans calling habits. The bulk records would stay in the hands of phone companies, which would not be required to retain the data for any longer than they normally would. And the N.S.A. could obtain specific records only with permission from a judge, using a new kind of court order.
In a speech in January, President Obama said he wanted to get the N.S.A. out of the business of collecting call records in bulk while preserving the programs abilities. He acknowledged, however, that there was no easy way to do so, and had instructed Justice Department and intelligence officials to come up with a plan by March 28 Friday when the current court order authorizing the program expires.
As part of the proposal, the administration has decided to ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to renew the program as it exists for at least one more 90-day cycle, senior administration officials said. But under the plan the administration has developed and now advocates, the officials said, it would later undergo major changes.
The new type of surveillance court orders envisioned by the administration would require phone companies to swiftly provide records in a technologically compatible data format, including making available, on a continuing basis, data about any new calls placed or received after the order is received, the officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/us/obama-to-seek-nsa-curb-on-call-data.html?_r=0
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)And we are expected to pretend that this is progress.
elias7
(4,026 posts)If you were president, knowing the pros and cons of the program, knowing the complexities of lawmaking, how would you go about doing it? Obviously not the way Obama is doing it...
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Except now the telco's will keep the data and the NSA and others will troll it with blanket warrants and pay the telcos for the privilege.
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JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Vattel
(9,289 posts)Part of the problem has been that the NSA has had access to all of this stuff and the FISA court has had to take their word for it that they have not been looking at it without reasonable suspicion that it is relevant to an investigation. The FISA court has complained that the NSA has not been trustworthy and has misrepresented its activities to the court on many occasions.
The new system would mean that the NSA would need to go through the courts to get access to any of the data. That is a huge improvement!