U.S. officials offer few concessions on NSA spying to privacy board

By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government is open to some adjustments to the way it conducts its cellphone and Web surveillance applications as long as they do not undermine the applications' effectiveness, U.S. officers instructed a privateness oversight board on Monday. How precisely the U.S. telephone and online information-gathering applications could strike this type of balance – serving to thwart terrorist plots whereas additionally protecting Americans' privacy – is under evaluate by means of the Privateness and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Centered on the suggestion of the Sep 11 Fee in 2004, the five-member board is an unbiased watchdog within the govt's government department. It’s studying U.S. intelligence surveillance packages in light of latest disclosures that have raised concerns about lax privateness protections.