Brennan Center Encouraged by President Obama’s Steps to Curb Surveillance Abuse

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2014. Today, President Obama announced critical changes to the government’s controversial surveillance programs. The president vowed that the government will no longer hold metadata on American telephone records and added a judicial review requirement before the government can search the database. He also called for additional restrictions on Section 702 to minimize the amount of Americans’ data collected through the program.