ODNI Report Reveals ‘Significant’ Privacy Concerns for U.S. Citizens
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On June 12, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declassified a senior advisory group panel’s report on commercially available information (CAI).
The report reveals that members of the U.S. intelligence community are collecting a “significant amount of CAI for mission-related purposes” and that the widespread availability of CAI poses counterintelligence risks as well as “increasingly important risks and implications for U.S. person privacy and civil liberties, as CAI can reveal sensitive and intimate information about individuals.”
The report offers three recommendations to address the issue: a multilayered approach to catalog the intelligence community’s use and acquisition of CAI, a set of standards and procedures for CAI, and the development of a “more precise sensitivity and privacy-protecting guidance for CAI.”
You can read the report here.
