“Privacy mandates that prevent the government from monitoring the personal data of National Security Agency employees should not be altered to stop insider threats, despite leaks of Top Secret information, a senior NSA official said on Thursday. ‘This is a case where I wouldn’t advocate a change of laws,’ NSA Technical Director Boyd Livingston said. ‘It’s very difficult to do insider threat monitoring — there are a whole other set of federal laws having to do with personal identification information, PII, and your Social Security [number], that prohibit various monitoring.'”
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2013/07/nsa-employee-privacy-laws-hamper-leak-detection/67430/
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