WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday said reforms to U.S. surveillance programs would include new rules for the use of National Security Letters, which can force companies to provide information to the government without informing the subject of the investigation.
Obama said in the future the secrecy of such letters would terminate within a fixed time unless the government demonstrated a real need for further secrecy.
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