White House Releases "Recommendations" For Curbing The Rogue NSA's Domestic Spying Programs

[RT] A review board established by the White House to investigate the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance operations believes that the NSA should make drastic changes to its bulk phone data collection program.

More than 40 recommendations are included in the 308-page report released by the White House on Wednesday afternoon, four months after United States President Barack Obama ordered an independent committee to convene and consider the NSA’s activities in the wake of an international surveillance scandal started in June by the unauthorized disclosure of top-secret national security documents.

Pres. Obama announced the creation of the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology on August 9, two months to the day after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed himself to be the source of a leaked document that proved the US government has been compelling telecommunication companies for the phone records of millions of Americans on a daily basis.

The Review Group suggests in their report that the NSA stop pressuring tech companies to put government-friendly “backdoors” into their programs and halt their habit of stockpiling so-called zero-day exploits — or otherwise-unknown software and hardware vulnerabilities than when relied upon may allow for unfettered access to a target’s system.

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