NSA Releases Report on USA Freedom Act's Impact on Metadata Collection Program
The NSA released an unclassified report on how it's implementing changes to its phone metadata records collection program as required by the USA Freedom Act, the agency said Thursday in a news release. NSA's Civil Liberties and Privacy Office did…
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the assessment, which helps the agency identify impacts to civil liberties and privacy, describe safeguards applied to a certain activity and support more transparency. The law, which was passed last summer, took effect Nov. 29. The report also detailed data minimization procedures designed to protect privacy. It said the NSA "may process, analyze, disseminate, and retain" call detail records -- meaning the metadata -- only as permitted by the minimization procedures adopted by the U.S. Attorney General's Office and approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.