But The Guardian notes that the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Group (PCLOB), which was organized by the Obama administration in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks, took issue with how the FBI accessed and stored NSA data in 2014.
“As of 2014, the FBI was not even required to make note of when it searched the metadata, which includes the ‘to’ or ‘from’ lines of an e-mail,” The Guardian wrote. “Nor does it record how many of its data searches involve Americans’ identifying details.”
However, a recent report from PCLOB suggested that the new rules approved by FISC for the FBI involve a revision of the FBI’s minimization procedures. Spokespeople from both the FBI and PCLOB declined to comment on that apparent procedure change, saying it was classified, but PCLOB’s spokesperson, Sharon Bradford Franklin, told The Guardian that the new rules “do apply additional limits.”
A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that the new procedures may be publicly released at some point.