The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unveiled revised rules for collecting,  analyzing and storing information on American citizens, updating the rules for the information age and publishing them in full for the first time in 35 years.

As CIA General Counsel Caroline Krass stated at a briefing at the agency's headquarters in Langley, the guidelines are designed "in a manner that protects the privacy and civil rights of the American people," Reuters reported.

The list of the corrected rules was approved by CIA Director John Brennan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

They  regulate how such data can be searched and create strict requirements for dealing with unevaluated electronic communications, which must be destroyed no later than five years after the are first examined.