U.S. Gov't To Keep Data On Non-Terrorist Citizens For 5 Years 186
arnott writes with this excerpt from the Washington Post:
"The Obama administration has approved guidelines that allow counterterrorism officials to lengthen the period of time they retain information about U.S. residents, even if they have no known connection to terrorism. The changes allow the National Counterterrorism Center, the intelligence community's clearinghouse for terrorism data, to keep information for up to five years. Previously, the center was required to promptly destroy — generally within 180 days — any information about U.S. citizens or residents unless a connection to terrorism was evident."
Hope and Change (Score:3, Funny)
I Hope we Change our President this year
Re:I'm surprised there is a limit (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, in five years the limit will be raised to ten years...
A moving target ... just like extending copyrights so works don't end up in the public domain?
Re:I'm surprised there is a limit (Score:5, Funny)
no one here can prove that data EVER gets destroyed.
So the US government is going to hire Facebook to handle data storage?
Thank god for Obama! (Score:5, Funny)
If it were Bush it would be 10 years!
Re:I'm surprised there is a limit (Score:5, Funny)
Dont be silly. They hire Facebook to GET the data in the first place!
Re:Good. (Score:2, Funny)
You did. You missed the part where nobody said anything about Santorum being president.
Re:Thank god for Obama! (Score:3, Funny)
well at lest Guantanamo is closed, o wait