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posted by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-quite dept.

The NSA has been ordered to destroy phone records it collected illegally, eventually:

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced that the "bulk collection" of phone data the NSA illegally collected under Section 215 of the Patriot act will be locked away starting November 29, 2015.

The data will effectively be out of reach from agency employees ad infinitum, effectively making it unusable in anti-terrorism or national security investigations. The only exception will be a three-month period, in which "technical personal" can check the data for the sole purpose of verifying records produced under the new USA Freedom Act.

The NSA is obligated to preserve most of the data until civil litigation involving the program has been resolved. Also reported at The Intercept and The Register.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:31AM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:31AM (#214665)

    there! and we promise we are not lying this time. we double pinky swear!

    years ago, people may have actually believed a 3 letter agency when it said something. now, it does not matter if they say things that please me or cause me to be angry. no matter what, we'll never know since they are liars to the core (or is that corp?)

    so, promise us anything. we will NEVER believe you ever again.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:54AM (#214678)

    > there! and we promise we are not lying this time. we double pinky swear!

    They won't be lying this time. They will just use another still-secret program to collect it from the databases of the now illegal program. Then they can delete the original databases and still keep the data in the new databases and without violating the letter of the ruling.

  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:03AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:03AM (#214706) Homepage Journal

    Security Enhanced Linux. James Bamford discusses the NSA's unclassified comouter security work in The Puzzle Palace.

    The CIA translates foreign academic journals then distributes the translations to publishers. Not just spy stuff but astronomy for example. It also has a large library of unclassified publications that we would all do well to read. The United States Congress should read the CIA World Fact Book.

    I was once beaten unconscious by two Oregon Health & Sciences University police officers. I lay in a coma for three days. When I regained consciousness while I could visualize the correct spelling of my own name when I thought about it but could not spell it correctly when I tried to write it with a pencil on paper.

    Despite that I have many close friends who are police officers and sheriff's deputies. One of my very best friends is an FBI agent.

    I have a special kind of hatred for Apple, in part because I am writing this post on my iPad. Despite that I still bleed in six colors. Some other clise friends work for Apple.

    An agency, government, labor union, business or even a website is not the samenas the people it is composed of.

    Black and white thinking is not productive.

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