TechHive: Obama will preserve 'valuable' NSA surveillance programs, promises transparency

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Obama will preserve 'valuable' NSA surveillance programs, promises transparency Aug 9th 2013, 21:04, by Evan Dashevsky In light of public concern regarding the wide-reaching XKeyscore surveillance program, courtesy of on-the-lam former NSA data miner Edward Snowden, President Obama announced a number of measures to "increase transparency and restore public trust in government surveillance programs." During a Friday afternoon press conference, the President promised reforms and transparency, but he also defended the surveillance programs that he said "provided valuable intelligence" and were "worth preserving." Moving forward Specifically, Obama said that his administration had plans to introduce a number measures that he said would "strike the right balance between protecting our freedoms and protecting our interests." Included among these measures, the President promised his administration would work with Congress to reform Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the section that the government used to legally justify the collecting of large swaths of metadata from Verizon. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: obama-100049655-small.png

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