U.S. Moves to Ease Limits on Use of Data in Counterterror Analysis
The Obama administration is moving to relax restrictions on how counterterrorism
analysts may access, store and search information about Americans gathered by
government agencies for purposes other than national security threats.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is expected on Thursday to sign new
guidelines for the National Counterterrorism Center, which was created in 2004
to foster intelligence sharing and to serve as a clearinghouse for terrorism
threats, according to officials.
The guidelines will lengthen to five years — from 180 days — the center’s
ability to retain private information about Americans when there is suspicion
that they are tied to terrorism, intelligence officials said. The guidelines are
also expected to result in the center making more copies of entire databases and
“data-mining them” — using complex algorithms to search for patterns that could
indicate a threat — than it currently does.
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