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ODNI outlines surveillance principles.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence updated its surveillance assessment and recent shifts in practices, in an 11-page report (http://1.usa.gov/1t2TKqU) released Friday. It included four principles on collection of surveillance intelligence -- that such activities should be guided…

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by statute or executive order, that they should incorporate privacy and civil liberties concerns, that collection of foreign private commercial and trade information should happen only in the name of security concerns and that such activities should be “tailored as feasible.” There should be limits on the use of data collected in bulk, it said. The report provided details of progress in response to President Barack Obama’s ambitions on surveillance overhaul, as outlined in January. “In the coming months, we will continue to work to complete this review,” ODNI said in an accompanying blog post (http://1.usa.gov/ZD7tZl).