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Intelligence chief pushing for spy agency Wi-Fi, clearance overhaul

Until very recently, people entering most intelligence community facilities — top leadership included — couldn’t even get in the building wearing a FitBit or other Bluetooth-enabled fitness tracker. The idea of setting up building-wide wireless access borders on blasphemy for the old guard, the nation’s intelligence chief acknowledges, but times are changing.

“We’re attempting to establish an [intelligence community]-wide policy for wireless, which is somewhat controversial,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said May 17 at the GEOINT Symposium in Orlando, Florida. “But you have to allow for technology to change, because inevitably, it will.”