Teh Metadatz gloves r off for 'merican citizen's priva-cees

[Razer]

> NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American
> information
>
> On Thursday The New York Times reported that the Obama administration
> had recently finalized rules to give the National Security Agency
> (NSA) more leeway in sharing its vast trove of intercepted
> communications with the 15 other government agencies that make up the
> Intelligence Community.
>
> Previously, agencies like the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Federal
> Bureau of Investigation would have to request information on a target
> from the NSA. The NSA, in turn, would retrieve communications
> pertaining to that target and scrub the documents of information that
> was considered irrelevant to the search, including the names of
> innocent Americans—a process called “minimization.” Now, that middle
> step has been cut out. The agencies need only get approval from the
> NSA to access its data, and agents from the agencies are expected to
> carry out minimization on their own.
>
> As The New York Times puts it, “Essentially, the government is
> reducing the risk that the NSA will fail to recognize that a piece of
> information would be valuable to another agency, but increasing the
> risk that officials will see private information about innocent
> people.” Although the agency analysts who will have access to the
> NSA’s surveillance powers are directed to ignore and redact
> information pertaining to innocent Americans, if they see evidence of
> criminal acts in the data they access, they are directed to hand it
> over to the Justice Department.
>
More, with links:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/obama-administration-relaxes-rules-on-nsa-intelligence-sharing/
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