An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. Credit: Reuters/NSA/Handout via Reuters
US Government Exploring Ways To Prevent Spying On Its Spying -- FOX News
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records.
As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it's quietly funding research to prevent phone company employees or eavesdroppers from seeing who the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has paid at least five research teams across the country to develop a system for high-volume, encrypted searches of electronic records kept outside the government's possession. The project is among several ideas that would allow the government to no longer store Americans' phone records but still search them as needed.
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Update: US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying -- Washington Post
My Comment: It looks like the NSA wants to keep it's secrets.
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