Cybersecurity
NSA Review Group Seeks Limits on Government Data Collection
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Government spying on Internet and telephone communications would be allowed to proceed with new limits on the broad collection and storage of the data, under recommendations by a White House advisory panel.
The U.S. should be prohibited from collecting and storing billions of phone records, such as numbers dialed and call durations, and bring to a halt programs that intercept and store bulk data that contains personal information about individuals, the committee said in its report released today.