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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.
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RC
(25,592 posts)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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Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Headline tickled me.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)That's why it's important to go about it the right way.