Surveillance operations
The Obama administration has announced changes to the surveillance
operations conducted by the United States intelligence community, but critics
are already using words like “weak” to describe the so-called reform.
Adjustments
to how US intel agencies collect and hold bulk data on Americans and
surveillance records concerning foreigners are outlined in a report published on
Tuesday this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The report—released near the one-year
anniversary of an address in which US President Barack Obama promised
surveillance reform in the wake of an international eavesdropping scandal—is
described by the ODNI as being the result of a “comprehensive effort to examine and enhance the privacy
and civil liberty protections we embed in our signals intelligence (SIGINT)
collection activities.”
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