Bloomberg reports that President Barack Obama will announce changes to U.S. surveillance programs ahead of a report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). Obama met with the PCLOB on Wednesday to discuss reform to the NSA’s collection of phone metadata as well as operations within the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The PCLOB said it plans to publish a report in late January or early February on the legality of the metadata collection and produce recommendations on “the right balance between national security and privacy and civil liberties.” The president said he will announce his surveillance reform plans prior to his State of the Union address on January 28.
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