A secret court just let the NSA keep spying on your phone records. Again.
By Brian Fung, WashPost, Updated: January 3 at 5:11 pm
A secret federal court approved the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone metadata for the 36th time on Friday, allowing the agency to continue gathering phone records even as dueling court cases moved forward this week over the controversial program.
The government's requests for reauthorization are typically classified. But in a release, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it was declassifying its latest petition to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in light of the public's interest in the metadata program.
Officials also signaled their willingness to cooperate with a presidential review panel that urged significant limits on the NSA's powers in December.
"The intelligence community continues to be open to modifications to this program that would provide additional privacy and civil liberty protections while still maintaining its operational benefits," said ODNI spokesperson Shawn Turner.
(More here.)
A secret federal court approved the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone metadata for the 36th time on Friday, allowing the agency to continue gathering phone records even as dueling court cases moved forward this week over the controversial program.
The government's requests for reauthorization are typically classified. But in a release, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it was declassifying its latest petition to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in light of the public's interest in the metadata program.
Officials also signaled their willingness to cooperate with a presidential review panel that urged significant limits on the NSA's powers in December.
"The intelligence community continues to be open to modifications to this program that would provide additional privacy and civil liberty protections while still maintaining its operational benefits," said ODNI spokesperson Shawn Turner.
(More here.)
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No trust = no consent and no consent equals chaos. I have nothing to hide and, am not comfortable with the NSA. They seem to be first cousins of the IRS.
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