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US privacy board defends conclusion that foreign surveillance is legal |
July 02, 2014
A U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program targeting foreign terrorism suspects does what Congress intended it to do, members of a government privacy oversight board said Wednesday, defending their report that finds the spying legal and effective.The NSA’s surveillance program, focused on collecting electronic communications related to foreign terrorism and other intelligence, works as described in the FISA Amendments Act, a law that was debated in public, the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) said in its report, released late Tuesday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2450340/us-privacy-board-defends-conclusion-that-foreign-surveillance-is-legal.html#tk.rss_all
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