Difference between spying and hacking, Barack Obama
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China's alleged
intellectual property theft and what he calls "standard fare" spying on other countries.
Obama says every country engages in intelligence gathering, which he called an occasional source of tension. But the president says there's a big difference between China trying to find out what he's saying in meetings with the Japanese and a hacker connected with the Chinese government breaking into Apple or other US companies.
Obama pressed China's president on cyberhacking earlier this month during a meeting in California. Obama said their conversations on the topic were "very blunt."
Obama spoke in an interview with the Public Broadcasting Service's Charlie Rose.
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New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly slammed the Obama administration for its handling of the National Security Administration scandal -- but not because he thinks the government was overextending its reach.
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China's alleged intellectual property theft and what he calls "standard fare" spying on other countries.
Obama says every country engages in intelligence gathering, which he called an occasional source of tension. But the president says there's a big difference between China trying to find out what he's saying in meetings with the Japanese and a hacker connected with the Chinese government breaking into Apple or other US companies.
Obama pressed China's president on cyberhacking earlier this month during a meeting in California. Obama said their conversations on the topic were "very blunt."
Obama spoke in an interview with the Public Broadcasting Service's Charlie Rose.
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Ray Kelly, NYPD Commissioner, Slams NSA Secrecy About Surveillance
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly slammed the Obama administration for its handling of the National Security Administration scandal -- but not because he thinks the government was overextending its reach.
The city's top cop argued that the public would have been more amenable to the idea of the NSA spying on their electronic communications if it hadn't been kept a secret.
“I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and goes to the government,” Kelly said at an event Monday, according to the New York Daily News. "I think the public can understand that."
Though Kelly suggested that the content of Americans' phone calls is being recorded, the Guardian reported earlier this month that the government has been collecting call metadata, which includes the numbers a particular phone has dialled and the time, location and duration of calls, but not the content of conversations.
Obama's mistake, Kelly argued, was not being more forthcoming about what information the NSA is gathering, and which internal mechanisms draw the limit.
“I think we can raise people’s comfort level if in fact information comes out as to that we have these controls and these protections inside the NSA,” he said, according to the New York Post.
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