Trump NSA continues to resist disclosures on domestic spying
Jun 13, 2018 4:29:16 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Jun 13, 2018 4:29:16 GMT -5
Civil liberties groups press Trump administration on NSA call record collection
By Morgan Chalfant, 05/31/18 05:42 PM EDT
Two-dozen civil liberties organizations are urging U.S. officials to disclose more details on the more than 500 million call records collected on Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) last year.
The organizations, which include the American Civil Liberties Union and digital rights group Access Now, say that the information is crucial to determining whether the government is overstepping its authority.
The letters, sent Thursday to the Office of Director of National Intelligence and to the House Judiciary Committee, come following the publication of a transparency report that revealed the spy agency collected 534 million call detail records in 2017, a substantial increase over the previous year.
These records are obtained from U.S. telecommunications providers and include the number and time and duration of phone contacts, not the content of the calls themselves.
The civil liberties groups are particularly interested in the number of so-called “unique identifiers,” or unique accounts, devices, or individuals, swept up in the NSA’s call detail record program.
The annual report is mandated by the USA Freedom Act passed by Congress in 2015 that aimed to place limits over the spy agency’s surveillance program, following the Edward Snowden disclosures. While the law directs the intelligence community to report the number of unique identifiers, officials have said that they do not possess the technical ability to do so.
thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/390162-civil-liberties-groups-press-trump-admin-on-nsa-call-record-collection
By Morgan Chalfant, 05/31/18 05:42 PM EDT
Two-dozen civil liberties organizations are urging U.S. officials to disclose more details on the more than 500 million call records collected on Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) last year.
The organizations, which include the American Civil Liberties Union and digital rights group Access Now, say that the information is crucial to determining whether the government is overstepping its authority.
The letters, sent Thursday to the Office of Director of National Intelligence and to the House Judiciary Committee, come following the publication of a transparency report that revealed the spy agency collected 534 million call detail records in 2017, a substantial increase over the previous year.
These records are obtained from U.S. telecommunications providers and include the number and time and duration of phone contacts, not the content of the calls themselves.
The civil liberties groups are particularly interested in the number of so-called “unique identifiers,” or unique accounts, devices, or individuals, swept up in the NSA’s call detail record program.
The annual report is mandated by the USA Freedom Act passed by Congress in 2015 that aimed to place limits over the spy agency’s surveillance program, following the Edward Snowden disclosures. While the law directs the intelligence community to report the number of unique identifiers, officials have said that they do not possess the technical ability to do so.
thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/390162-civil-liberties-groups-press-trump-admin-on-nsa-call-record-collection
and this uniparty charade still continues, it can be pretty much written in concrete that the political class will NEVER voluntarily stop their illegal surveillance, especially since it was the REPUBLICANS, at President TRUMPS urging, that reauthorized this Constitution killing travesty...
REPUBLICAN led Senate passes bill to renew controversial NSA spying powers
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