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This entry was posted on January 17, 2014 at 13:57.
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(Ap / LaPresse)
NEW YORK – Barack Obama has chosen the middle way to respond to the scandal about the invasion of privacy revealed by Edward Snowden: for the reform of counter-terrorism surveillance programs of the NSA will announce in a few hours a path that will pass for a court secret before accessing the metadata collected by the American counterintelligence.
The President also wants the ‘metadata’ the sheer volume of information with millions of data on private U.S. citizens and world no longer remain ‘in the hands of the government, but they go to a third party is not yet defined, which could be or a telephone company or other entity not defined. Obama also wants to introduce control measures to prevent foreign heads of government, especially in allied countries, are subject to direct espionage.
Obama also wants to create the position of a guarantor or of “public attorney” who can intervene in the secret courts to report any violations of rights of privacy. But all this will take time and Obama will announce the creation of new committees to address how to apply some of the proposals such as metadata to entrust to a third party other than the government. Meanwhile, the data will remain under the control of the federal government.
According to the New York Times, who gave a speech this morning advances expected in a few hours to Washington by the President to the Justice Department, Obama “wants to preserve the operating capacity of a program is important for the anti-terrorism but also respond to citizens’ concerns about the fact that the government has control of the metadata. “
committee to propose alternative had suggested that intelligence operations directed at foreign leaders were examined in detail to assess the appropriateness and possible political or economic damage in case the operation was uncovered, as happened with the extraordinary revelations Edward Snowden, the former employee of the National Security Agency who distributed and continues to distribute material collected secretly by the Agency via the Internet.
The President, who was once one of the most ‘fervent critics of operations antiprivacy, ask’ which also disrupts the NSA programs to weaken cryptographic walls that protect computer networks. But not raccogliera’il advice to reduce the power of the NSA (giving assignments to other agencies) which effectively reduced and so will continue while passing through requests to play its role.
In addition, in order to proceed with the reforms it will take an intervention of Congress and an amendment to section 215 of the Patriot Act, the controversial program to prevent terrorist attacks, something that will take time.
Meanwhile, the metadata will remain under the control of the government, which scantenerà new controversy. Interesting also follow the ‘formation’ of a President who, before the daily revelations of secret terrorist threats has changed his mind on whether or not to use technology to protect the country although this can ‘create the risk of a loss of privacy.
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