Nextgov reports a new privacy update could give the National Security Agency continued powers to conduct wide surveillance on American citizens. An update to “DOD Manual 5240.01: Procedures Governing the Conduct of DOD Intelligence Activities” represents a shift from tapping phones to bulk internet data collection. The new guidelines are “making kosher the kind of upstream collection that allows for really wide scale incidental collection, even if [a] very time-limited collection, of Americans' information," said New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute Policy Counsel Robyn Greene. The new rules now consider information to be captured “when it is received,” rather than when it was used by an analyst. "The clock starts to run as soon as information is collected, meaning that collected information must be promptly evaluated to determine the proper retention period," said former Brookings Institution researcher Cody Poplin in a Lawfare blog post. Editor’s Note: The IAPP will be hosting a discussion on the “golden age of surveillance” at the Privacy. Security. Risk. conference from Sept. 13-16 in San Jose, California.
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