Obama to announce new NSA data collection rules
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Obama to announce new NSA data collection rules
Reuters
03 Feb 2015 at 08:53 ET
The Obama administration on Tuesday will announce new rules offering slight adjustments to how U.S. intelligence agencies handle data collected on Americans and foreigners, the New York Times reported.
National Security Agency analysts now will be required to delete information accidentally collected about U.S. citizens that has no intelligence purpose, the newspaper said. Similar information about non-citizens also will have to be deleted within five years.
The new rules will formalize the White Houses review of the NSAs monitoring of foreign leaders, the report said.
The White House will announce the rules, which the Times called modest, on Tuesday. White House representatives could not be reached immediately to confirm the report.