There are sweeping changes in the National Security Service or otherwise NSA of the United States?
The government Obama this week is expected to propose to Congress to revamp the e-monitoring program.
Specifically, he is considering recommending that phone companies continue to keep call logs, as they do now, and the National Security Agency, according to a government official, to stop collecting phone metadata. The New York Times first reported details of the proposal Monday night. Their source, of course, did not want to reveal it name her.
The White House's proposal would be to end the Secret Service's practice of collecting phone data from millions of Americans and keeping it stored for five years. Instead, Mr White House is expected to propose that data should be kept for 18 months by phone companies that are required to do so anyway under a federal regulation.
The details about the secret program phone data collection by the NSA was revealed last year by Edward Snowden.
In January, President Barack Obama commissioned a panel to evaluate the National Security Agency and come up with a proposal with alternatives solutions for today's counterterrorism program. Obama said phone companies having the records creates problems.
"It won't be easy," Obama said. The independent review panel recommended that the Secret Service stop storing data and that records from phone calls be stored at one-third of phone companies.
"There are tough problems," Obama said in January. "If we have to rely only on provider records, for example, it could require companies to modify their processes in ways that would 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.
