US Domestic Surveillance Guidelines Haven't Been Updated in 30 Years
Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board speaks
The president's "Privacy and Civil Rights Oversight Board" has launched something of a letter-writing campaign to US intelligence officials.
Barack Obama's new privacy watchdog has delivered its first bark, with a letter to intelligence chiefs urging them draft stronger rules on domestic surveillance, something it revealed had not been updated for 30 years.
The intervention of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, its first since the appointment of new staff by the White House earlier this year, came as Obama acknowledged that technology was outpacing the checks put in place to protect privacy and said the National Security Agency was "scary to people".
So they haven't been revised since about 1984?
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