Privacy Oversight Board Releases Report on EO 12333
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board released its report on Executive Order 12333, which provides broad legal authority for data collection.
The Oversight Board reviewed counterterrorism activities—two on classified CIA programs and one on NSA’s XKEYSCORE.
XKEYSCORE is a tool used to search data collected under Executive Order 12333 that was revealed by the Snowden revelations.
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