Obama Orders NSA Phone Data Limits, Tighter Restrictions For Spying On International Leaders -- FOX News
Trying to strike a balance between the government’s surveillance policies and the public’s civil liberties, President Obama announced a series of steps Friday that would end the National Security Agency’s ability to store phone data collected from millions of Americans.
However, Obama, speaking at the Justice Department, did not say the program would end -- only that the information collected would no longer be held by the NSA.
He also announced tighter restrictions on spying on international leaders.
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For Whom the Bells Toll?
The overseas customers of U.S. Technology Giants aren’t micro-analyzing the protections the NSA takes when it accesses customer data: The world is incensed that the U.S. Banking, Finance and Technology Companies, FBI, CIA, Israel, Israeli Companies and the US agency NSA collects the data the first place.
The official order [Obama] released as he spoke — Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28, which laid out the changes he was making — included a bow to the tech giants. High up in the document, he acknowledged that the nation’s intelligence-gathering activities risk “a potential loss of international trust in U.S. firms [and]…the credibility of our commitment to an open, interoperable, and secure global Internet.” In the battle to balance national security with vital civil liberties, the tech industry has suffered the most severe collateral damage, as trust in its products has indeed eroded. Today the president had the opportunity to cut Silicon Valley a break.
So what did the tech companies get?
As expected, they will have more freedom to disclose the number and the nature of requests from the government for data related to national-security concerns. So we can expect more detailed transparency reports from the companies showing that they only provide a fraction of their information to the government.
This does not mean US & Israeli companies are mandated by any constitutional or legislative or executive order to reveal that they are collecting data in the first place. Merely, what they share with the US government and that too only in some cases where the court shall warrant such disclosure.
PPD-28 can be found here as PDF
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