There are sweeping changes in the National Security Service or otherwise NSA of the United States?
The government Obama this weekteam is expected to propose to Congress an overhaul of the electronic surveillance program.
In particular, it plans to suggest that telephone companies continue to keep call records as they have done so far, and that the National Security Service, according to a government official, stops collecting phone metadata. The New York Times first reported the details of the Monday evening proposal. Their source of course did not want to reveal her name.
The White House's proposal would be to put an end to the practice of the secret service that collected telephone data from millions of Americans and kept them stored for five years. Instead, the White House is expected to suggest that the data should be kept for 18 months by phone companies who are still obliged to do so after a federal arrangement.
The details about the secret program collectionof phone records from the NSA were revealed last year by Edward Snowden.
In January, President Barack Obama commissioned a team to evaluate the National Security Agency and to table a proposal with alternatives to the current counter-terrorism program. Obama said that having telephony companies cause problems.
"It will not be easy," Obama said. The Independent Evaluation Committee recommended that the Secret Service stop storing data and that records of telephone calls be stored in one-third of telephone companies.
"There are difficult problems," Obama said in January. "If we have to rely solely on providers' records, for example, companies could be required to modify their procedures in ways that raise new privacy concerns."
And telephone companies of course are opposed to this choice.
In several meetings they had with the White House staff since December, telephone company executives reacted strongly to the government's proposals. They explicitly stated that they would accept the changes to the NSA program as long as they have a legal obligation and whether this requirement is set out in existing legislation.
You tell things to change and NSA agents suddenly find themselves without work. Without wishing to play with the seriousness of the news, it seems somewhat utopian that the secret services do not do what the state has set them.
