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Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities

This executive order establishes enhanced privacy and civil liberties safeguards for U.S. signals intelligence activities, including a new redress mechanism allowing individuals in designated "qualifying states" to file complaints about alleged violations. It creates a two-tier review process involving the Civil Liberties Protection Officer and a new Data Protection Review Court, while codifying limits on bulk collection and prohibiting intelligence collection for purposes like suppressing dissent or advantaging U.S. companies commercially.