Barton Gellman has a new piece up at the Washington Post about how the NSA is collecting vast amounts of data from the Google and Yahoo clouds.
The newly revealed NSA operation — called MUSCULAR — is ostensibly being deployed against communication links between Google and Yahoo data centers outside of the United States, where FISA doesn’t apply. But as Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) notes in Gellman’s piece:
As we’ve reported over the last couple of days (here and here), insurance companies who are participating in the Obamacare exchanges have big concerns about extending the open enrollment period past the currently scheduled end date of March 31.
It sounds like HHS has heard and understands those concerns.
Kathleen Sebelius said this morning during her congressional testimony that the deadline wasn’t moving: “It’s important for the insurance partners to know who is in their pool so again they can stay in the market next year and know who they are insuring.”
