President Obama just announced big changes to America's massive government surveillance programs, promising to add new safeguards to protect Americans' privacy and place new restrictions on how the NSA can use the information it collects on ordinary citizens. We've graded the big changes below, comparing them to the reforms that were recommended by an independent review panel last year. All in all, the proposed changes mainly concern the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records, not its spying on internet communications. Even accounting for that limitation, they seem good on paper — and far better than many privacy advocates feared — but we're still waiting to see how they will be enacted.
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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/17/5316980/president-obama-nsa-signals-intelligence-reform-report-card
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