12.44am GMT

We're going to wrap up our live blog coverage for the day. Here's a summary of where things stand:

• The White House released the detailed recommendations of a task force formed in August to review NSA surveillance practices. The review group made 46 recommendations for new checks on surveillance. The report was hailed as a vindication for critics of NSA conduct, but significant holes in the review also were diagnosed.

• Major recommendations include moving an NSA phone database off-site; banning the practice of undermining global encryption standards; banning industrial espionage; requiring that Americans' data be purged; allowing tech companies to say when they receive national security letters, which would require judicial review; creating a public interest advocate on the Fisa court, and more.

• The review group found “that the information contributed to terrorist investigations by the use of section 215 telephony meta-data was not essential to preventing attacks and could readily have been obtained in a timely manner using conventional section 215 orders.”

• President Barack Obama was "extremely grateful" for the report, according to the press secretary.

• Senate surveillance skeptics including Ron Wyden, Mark Udall and Patrick Leahy welcomed the report, as did civil liberties advocates.

• The report has large blind spots, some analysts warned. Recommendations pertaining to NSA's bulk surveillance on foreign publics were "vague and preliminary," national security editor Spencer Ackerman wrote. The recommendations still would allow NSA to get information from telecoms and banks and other businesses, journalist Marcy Wheeler wrote.

• The report warns of the potential future threat from powerful surveillance tools ending up in the hands of nefarious power-holders. "Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials," it says.

• The report was an inside job, written by a group including Cass Sunstein, Geoffrey Stone, Peter Swire, Richard Clarke, and led by former acting CIA director Michael Morrell.