Status of Implementation of PPD-28: Response to the PCLOB’s Report, October 2018
October 16, 2018
Today, ODNI is releasing the report “Status of Implementation of PPD-28: Response to the PCLOB’s Report, October 2018” prepared by ODNI’s Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency (CLPT) in consultation with other relevant ODNI components and relevant elements of the Intelligence Community (IC). This report outlines the status of the IC’s implementation of Presidential Policy Directive-28, Signals Intelligence (PPD-28), and responds to the report on PPD-28 by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). Today , the PCLOB released its report, in redacted form, and it was posted on PCLOB’s public website: www.pclob.gov.
PPD-28 reinforces longstanding intelligence practices that protect privacy and civil liberties, while requiring agencies to systematically document and implement new processes and procedures. As a formal presidential directive, it has the force of law within the Executive Branch, and compliance is mandatory. PPD-28 remains in full force and effect.
The PCLOB’s report was in response to Section 5 of PPD-28, which encourages the PCLOB to provide the President with a report that assesses implementation of any matters contained within PPD-28 that fall within the PCLOB’s mandate. The PCLOB issued its classified report to the President and provided it to Congress in January 2017; it was subsequently subject to a Freedom of Information Act request, which prompted an interagency review to ensure information was redacted as appropriate.
ODNI’s report posted below describes how the IC has implemented the four recommendations made by the PCLOB regarding PPD-28. The report further shares how the IC has systematically implemented the requirements of PPD-28 to ensure that U.S. signals intelligence (SIGINT) activities continue to include appropriate safeguards for the personal information of all individuals, regardless of the nationality of the individual to whom the information pertains or where that individual resides. IC elements have prepared and published the policies called for by PPD-28, and have been following those policies.
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Implementation of PPD-28: Response to the PCLOB’s Report, October 2018