Arquivo para August 10th, 2013
Obama changes spying
10
Aug
The American intelligence revealed by Edward Snowden, Obama’s popularity has dropped and now the U.S.A.
president went public to say that the monitoring program will be clearer and more transparent.
In a statement yesterday (8/9) Barack Obama revealed that the Patriot Act, which permits unilateral action of spying, no more records will store the telephone and Internet access to every citizen, but says there will be “more transparency and limits on use of this authority. ”
Now the secret court that approves the actions of the National Security Agency (NSA) must have a public representative to defend the public interest, the question is whether this representative will have sufficient autonomy in cases of abuse.
This representative will defend civil liberties and privacy of citizens, is also significant that the White House will have a board of external experts can evaluate the government’s actions and post them on a bimonthly report.
Some sites like The Verge claim that no one knows for sure if these experts will be heard.
