New Bush privacy ‘guidelines’
p2pnet.net News:- The Bush administration has, “released new guidelines aimed at protecting the privacy of U.S. citizens as the government moves to enhance its sharing of information as part of post-September 11 reforms,” says Reuters, without a trace of irony
Bush’s government uses an NSA program to secretly listen in on international telephone calls and spy on US emails, in the process violating federal law, say people who oppose it.
However, the office of US intelligence chief John Negroponte, who released the guidelines, “could not immediately say whether the rules pertain to the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program,” says the story,
The new Bush “guidelines” cover US government agencies from the CIA and the Pentagon to the State Department, Homeland Security, FBI, Justice Department and state and local law enforcement, continues Reuters.
“Reforms mandated by Congress in 2004 require government agencies to create an ‘information sharing environment’ to help protect against attacks like those that killed 3,000 people on September 11, 2001,” it says.
Also See:
Reuters – Government issues new privacy guidelines, December 4, 2006
Associated Press – Plaintiffs in Microsoft case won’t call Gates, December 4, 2006
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