December 18, 2013 Turn Off the Data Vacuum By THE EDITORIAL BOARD <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/opinion/editorialboard.html> In the days after one of the biggest national security leaks in United States history revealed the existence of vast, largely unchecked government surveillance programs <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/us/officials-say-us-may-never-know-extent-...>, President Obama said he would "welcome" <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/us/obamas-remarks-on-health-care-and-surve...> a robust national debate over the appropriate balance between protecting national security and respecting individual privacy and civil liberties. The answer has now landed squarely on Mr. Obama's desk, with therelease late Wednesday afternoon <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/us/politics/report-on-nsa-surveillance-tac...> of a remarkably thorough and well-reasoned report <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/19/us/politics/19nsa-review.html> calling on the government to end its bulk phone-data collection program and to increase both the transparency and accountability of surveillance programs going forward. The 300-plus-page report was written by a five-member advisory panel of intelligence and legal experts that was commissioned by the president himself and made 46 recommendations for reform. The recommendations demonstrate how far afield the National Security Agency has wandered in its zeal to vacuum up the phone and Internet data of virtually every American, not to mention world leaders and other non-American citizens. They also show the lack of regard for the Constitution that has led those efforts, and the virtual absence of supervision and restraint by Mr. Obama and his predecessor, President George W. Bush. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/opinion/turn-off-the-data-vacuum.html?ref=...