Obama Enhanced the ability of NSA & entire U.S Agencies

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Now, the National Security Agency is able to exchange raw surveillance data with entire 16 intelligence groups of the U.S government, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security & Drug Enforcement Administration. All these U.S agencies will be able to forward a request for raw data regarding specific cases. The NSA has the right to approve or reject each request based on its lawfulness. But, allowing access will put a risk on a large amount of information of U.S citizens. In the past, NSA was performing filter information for specific requests by eliminating the identities of good & blameless people and washing irrelevant personal data. Now, the NSA has restricted to perform such operations. The NSA will open up its raw data for all U.S intelligence agencies.

It would provide an ease for authorities to spot troublesome communications. The New York Times indicated that a number of activist groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union said that sharing data will unsecure the privacy of innocent U.S citizens. It is important that NSA has a sweeping surveillance system in gathering satellite information, phone calls, bulk communication data and e-mails passing through networks in other countries. Most things changed after the terrorist attacks on 11^th September 2001 at the World Trade Center. The foreign intelligence Surveillance Act in 2002 allowed the NSA and other intelligence agencies to exchange domestically collected raw data. Now, the Attorney General Loretta Lynch has signed the new rules on 3^rd January 2017.