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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 06:37 PM Jan 2014

US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government is looking into encryption techniques that could prevent eavesdroppers from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records.

As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it's quietly funding research to prevent phone company employees or eavesdroppers from seeing whom the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has paid at least five research teams across the country to develop a system for high-volume, encrypted searches of electronic records kept outside the government's possession. The project is among several ideas that would allow the government to discontinue storing Americans' phone records, but still search them as needed.

Under the research, U.S. data mining would be shielded by secret coding that could conceal identifying details from outsiders and even the owners of the targeted databases, according to public documents obtained by The Associated Press and AP interviews with researchers, corporate executives and government officials.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NSA_SURVEILLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-27-17-20-39

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US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jan 2014 OP
Since the data was illegally obtained, destroy it and put those responsible in prison. RC Jan 2014 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Cali_Democrat Jan 2014 #6
LMAO Solly Mack Jan 2014 #2
Reminded me of dipsydoodle Jan 2014 #3
NEXT: US looks at ways to prevent spying on spying on its spying jsr Jan 2014 #4
Snowden's revelations will only harden the intelligence community in the US Cali_Democrat Jan 2014 #5
 

RC

(25,592 posts)
1. Since the data was illegally obtained, destroy it and put those responsible in prison.
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 07:15 PM
Jan 2014

Half the problem solved. The other half will be to make sure the NSA adheres to the spirit and the letter of law in the future.

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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
5. Snowden's revelations will only harden the intelligence community in the US
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:36 PM
Jan 2014

That's why it's important to go about it the right way.

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