Thursday, 19. January 2017
Topic: SPY - on January 19, 2017 at 5:44:00 PM CET
CIA reveals new guidelines for collecting data on Americans
The rules may help spies keep pace with the internet era.
There's no question that the US government's approach to handling sensitive data could stand an update to acknowledge the online age, and the CIA is taking a stab at it. The agency has published new procedures that govern how it collects, keeps and shares information on Americans under Executive Order 12333. The guidelines acknowledge that it's much, much easier to collect large volumes of data than when the Order surfaced in the 1980s, and that the nature of the internet requires restrictions that hadn't even been considered before.
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