U.S. Relaxes Limits on Use of Data in Terror Analysis

[choie]

Source: NY Times

U.S. Relaxes Limits on Use of Data in Terror Analysis
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: March 22, 2012

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is moving to relax restrictions on how counterterrorism analysts may retrieve, store and search information about Americans gathered by government agencies for purposes other than national security threats.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Thursday signed new guidelines for the National Counterterrorism Center, which was created in 2004 to foster intelligence sharing and serve as a terrorism threat clearinghouse.

The guidelines will lengthen to five years — from 180 days — the amount of time the center can retain private information about Americans when there is no suspicion that they are tied to terrorism, intelligence officials said. The guidelines are also expected to result in the center making more copies of entire databases and “data mining them” using complex algorithms to search for patterns that could indicate a threat.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/us/politics/us-moves-to-relax-some-restrictions-for-counterterrori

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Oh good, more erosion of our privacy. Thanks Obama!

[MNBrewer]

1. Don't worry. There will always be a Responsible Democrat in the White House, right?

Oh,....

[OnyxCollie]

2. All your data are belong to us.

When Sen. Obama voted for cloture on the FISA amendment, that was all I need to know; he had shown his true colors.

The Obama administration is worse than the Bush administration on domestic surveillance.

The link is bad. Try this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/us/politics/us-moves-to-relax-some-restrictions-for-counterterrorism-analysis.html

[adam in oregon]

3. Bye bye rights

Its a bird. Its a plane. Its your rights flying out the window under democratic president Obama. So now that they will not be limited to looking for terrorist activities, how do they justify their job? By going after people who are anti-war, who believe in free speech, people who think the banksters should go to jail. People who are against factory farming and animal cruelty. You know, dangerous folks who see the constitution being shredded by both parties.

[TownDrunk2]

4. Thank God they're implementing the Utah intelligence facility

now, with the covert monitoring of everything anybody does they'll have a huge pool of prospective political candidates to put their money behind - just find those with the most egregious vices and viola! congressional challenger

[tpsbmam]

5. Your link isn't working -- I get a "page not found" error...correct link here

Comparing the two, it looks like your leak is truncated.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/us/politics/us-moves-to-relax-some-restrictions-for-counterterrorism-analysis.html?hp

[saras]

6. and since none of this has done a damn thing for terrorism, you really have to ask who IS profiting?

The barriers between the "government" using this data and corporations using this data seem to be getting smaller and more porous with each new law.

[shanti]

7. follow the money...