He said there was no general data grab of random license plate details or storage of such information in bulk databases.
Fears are growing among civil libertarians that Barack Obama will allow the National Security Agency to retain its bulk databases of US phone call information, despite new polling that indicates substantial public appetite for restricting the spy agency's powers.
It has also obtained letters it says show the intelligence agencies' oversight body had not been informed that UK intelligence agencies had shared bulk databases of personal data with foreign governments, law enforcement and industry — raising concerns about effective oversight of the mass surveillance programs.
VL participated in the design and execution of the Review – including the bulk of database searching, organising data, designing templates and extracting data, and contributed to the manuscript.
If the NSA decides that it wants to look through the bulk phone records database or conduct a backdoor search for a particular American's emails, it can do so without getting the approval of anyone outside the NSA.
THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY, established in 1949, uses volunteers for special events like walks and golf tournaments, but also needs people long term for office work, bulk mailings and database entries.
The sequence structures constitute the vast bulk of the database size so it is costly to extract this information from the sequence structures themselves.
The intelligence agencies tell us that they need this data to conduct targeted searches, however, in 2015 GCHQ and MI5 searched bulk communications data databases for 263,830 communication addresses or identifiers.
The legislation creates a legal framework authorizing state actors to hack into devices, networks and services, including in bulk; maintain large databases of personal information on U.K. citizens, including individuals suspected of no crime; and force companies to decrypt data on request — effectively placing limits on the use of end-to-end encryption.
The UK's powers also include "bulk personal datasets," databases of information gleaned from various sources medical records, travel plans, passport information which security and intelligence agencies can then exploit.
