NSA Insists That Its New Phone Surveillance Program Meets Privacy Safeguards

How the NSA’s domestic metadata program works now: pic.twitter.com/NnOYb9PEs4

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Reuters: NSA says new phone spying program meets privacy safeguards

A new system for collecting domestic telephone records meets several privacy and civil liberties benchmarks, the U.S. National Security Agency said on Friday.

The program, which some Republican presidential hopefuls have criticized because they say it puts Americans at greater risk of attack by Islamic State and other violent groups, has satisfactorily complied with eight privacy safeguards that include transparency, oversight, data minimization and use limitation since its implementation in November, according to a report released by the NSA’s Civil Liberties and Privacy Office.

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Update #1: NSA claims to meet privacy safeguards -- The Hill
Update #2: Nothing to see here, move along: NSA praises itself for privacy, transparency -- RT
Update #3: NSA says it’s meeting privacy standards on phone surveillance -- Silicon Beat

WNU Editor: The NSA can insist all that they want that their new phone surveillance program meets required safeguards .... but their history of abuse makes me sceptical and very suspicious of any and all of their claims.