| Teesus | Date: Saturday, 2013/08/17, 11:01 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Nearly 3,000 violations of Americans’ privacy, mentioned in the National Security Agency’s internal audit recently leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden, weren’t “willful” and are results of mistakes by employees, the agency claimed.
The NSA's director of compliance, John DeLong, has held a conference call with reporters Friday as the agency has made the most direct effort to counter concern over its spying activities since its classified documents began appearing in the press.
“NSA has a zero tolerance policy for willful misconduct,” DeLong is cited as saying by the Wall Street Journal. “None of the incidents that were in the document released were willful.”
However, he admitted that there was “a couple” of willful privacy violations during the past 10 years, but didn’t provide any details of those incidents.
According to DeLong, the NSA had about a 0.0005 percent error rate, with roughly 100 mistakes out of 20 million queries a month.
“No one at NSA thinks a mistake is OK, but those kinds of reports are designed and generated to make sure we understand when mistakes occur," DeLong said.
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