""It’s a good first step, but it is not nearly as far as his Review Group recommended nor as far as Congress has proposed," Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, told HuffPost in an email. "We appreciate that he is finally recognizing that there is a great privacy threat to the government collecting this data, but needs to expand that rationale way beyond the narrow phone records program under [the Patriot Act] to the many other types of records and other programs that have been revealed over the last 7 months.""
- Date Published:01/17/2014
- Original Publication:Huffington Post