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6C Daily News – Tuesday, January 28, 2014 WORLD BRIEFING delegations from the opposition and the Syrian government faced off on the question of Assad's future. US considers how to prevent spying on its searches of phone records WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is looking into encryption techniques that could prevent eavesdroppers from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records. As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it's quietly funding research to prevent phone company employees or eavesdroppers from seeing whom the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has paid at least five research teams across the country to develop a system for high-volume, encrypted searches of electronic records kept outside the government's possession. The project is among several ideas that would allow the government to discontinue storing Americans' phone records, but still search them as needed. Under the research, U.S. data mining would be shielded by secret coding that could conceal identifying details from outsiders and even the owners of the targeted databases, according to public documents obtained by The Associated Press and AP interviews with researchers, corporate executives and government officials. The administration has provided only vague descriptions about changes it is considering to the NSA's daily collection and storage of Americans' phone records, which are presently kept in NSA databanks. To resolve legal, privacy and civil liberties concerns, President Barack Obama this month ordered the attorney general and senior intelligence officials to recommend changes by March 28 that would allow the U.S. to identify suspected terrorists' phone calls without the government holding the phone records itself. After debacles of 2012, GOP tries to train unpolished candidates Ukraine president says he will scrap antiprotest law KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's beleaguered president on Monday agreed to scrap harsh antiprotest laws that set off a wave of clashes between protesters and police over the past week, a potentially substantial concession to the opposition that stopped short of meeting all of its demands. In a possibly major sticking point, a proposed amnesty for arrested protesters would not be offered unless demonstrators stopped occupying buildings and ended their round-the-clock protests and tent camp on Kiev's central Independence Square, according to a statement by Justice Minister Elena Lukash on the presidential website. President Viktor Yanukovych has been under increasing pressure since he pushed the tough laws through parliament, setting of clashes and protests in other parts of the country in a sharp escalation of tensions after weeks of mostly peaceful protests over his rejection of a deal to deepen ties with the 28nation European Union. At a meeting between top opposition figures and Yanukovych late Monday ''a political decision was made on scrapping the laws of Jan. 16, which aroused much discussion,'' Lukash said. She made no mention of a key opposition demand — that Yanukovych resign. Issue of Assad's future blocks progress in Syria talks GENEVA (AP) — The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one TAI'S DELI Buy 1 sandwich 2 Chips & 2 drinks, & receive 2nd sandwich LIC# OH89548 Working for our neighbors and yours! 1115 MAIN ST. 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