The Obama administration just
handed even more power to the incoming Trump administration to invade
the privacy of American citizens. The recent approval of new
procedures for an existing executive order will allow the NSA to
share the private data it collects with all 16 agencies of the United
States intelligence community. The 23-page outline of the new
procedures lifts previous limits placed on the way information was
filtered before being disseminated to individual agencies.
“As he hands the White House
to Trump, Obama just unchained NSA from basic limits on passing raw
intercepts to others,” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted
Thursday.
Gone are the already-flimsy
privacy protections that required NSA analysts to review data before
handing it over to other agencies like the CIA, DEA, DHS, or others.
Whereas prior restrictions required analysts to shield the identities
of innocent parties and other personal data before sharing only the
information deemed pertinent, there are now no filters whatsoever.
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