Privacy advocates outlined several concerns and recommendations about...
Privacy advocates outlined several concerns and recommendations about how the Senate should modify the House-passed version of the USA Freedom Act (HR-3361), in a letter sent to Senate leaders Wednesday. The groups “urge Congress to avoid any form of mandatory…
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data retention regime, which would force U.S. telecom companies to retain and make available to the government data on their customers that they would not otherwise maintain,” said the letter (http://bit.ly/1lC70zX), signed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Press, New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, Reddit and TechFreedom, among others. “Any such mandate, in addition to creating unnecessary economic burdens and data security risks, would represent an unacceptable threat to privacy and civil liberties and would face the strongest possible opposition from our community as well as the opposition of the Internet and telecommunications industries.” They will oppose the USA Freedom Act if it does not “definitively” end bulk collection of metadata, focusing on what many say is an overly broad definition of “specific selection term,” they said. The legislation should also have stronger transparency reporting provisions and make the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court more accountable, they said.