Obama outlined a new surveillance-policy directive that would curtail some operations of the U.S. National Security Agency. Privacy advocates said the president and Congress should go much further in protecting privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union praised the additional scrutiny by the secret FISA court. The ACLU praised the creation of a panel of civil liberties, technology and privacy advocates. The president chose not to curtail other mass data-collection programs, such as the gathering of data on international money transfers from companies such as Western Union.”]
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