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The US Administration has strengthened privacy rules governing mass surveillance programs run by US intelligence agencies, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said in a report released on Tuesday.

"As this report shows, the Intelligence Community has made significant progress implementing many reforms," the report said. “Over the past eighteen months, the United States has undertaken a comprehensive effort to examine and enhance the privacy and civil liberty protections embedded in our signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection activities.”

The new rules limit “Intelligence Community elements’ ability to use signals intelligence collected in bulk to six specific purposes,” DNI said. That includes counterterrorism, cybersecurity, counterintelligence, anti-proliferation, countering transnational crime, and protecting officials and military personnel from the United States and allied nations.

US Intelligence Makes Progress in Privacy 

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