A report from the Department of Justice (DoJ) Office of the Inspector General has revealed that for seven years, the DoJ and the FBI “failed to implement a provision requiring it to create privacy rules for use of an intelligence-gathering tool authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act,” The Washington Post reports. Instead of adopting “minimization” procedures to protect privacy, the DoJ “adopted interim rules,” which the inspector general said “failed to provide FBI agents with specific guidance” on how long to keep “non-public” information about Americans. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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