Nobody is listening to your telephone calls: Obama
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obamavigorously defended sweeping secret surveillance into America's phone records and foreigners' internet use, declaring "we have to make choices as a society."
Taking questions on Friday from reporters at a health care event in San Jose, California, Obama said, "It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience."
It was revealed late Wednesday that the national security agency has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of US phone customers. The leaked document first reported by the Guardian newspaper gave the NSA authority to collect from all of Verizon's land and mobile customers, but intelligence experts said the program swept up the records of other phone companies too.
Another secret program revealed on Thursday scours the internet usage of foreign nationals overseas who use any of nine US-based internet providers such as Microsoft and Google.
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obamavigorously defended sweeping secret surveillance into America's phone records and foreigners' internet use, declaring "we have to make choices as a society."
Taking questions on Friday from reporters at a health care event in San Jose, California, Obama said, "It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience."
It was revealed late Wednesday that the national security agency has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of US phone customers. The leaked document first reported by the Guardian newspaper gave the NSA authority to collect from all of Verizon's land and mobile customers, but intelligence experts said the program swept up the records of other phone companies too.
Another secret program revealed on Thursday scours the internet usage of foreign nationals overseas who use any of nine US-based internet providers such as Microsoft and Google.
EVEN THOUGH
Internet spying: Britain getting data from US agency
LONDON: The UK has been secretly gathering communications data from American internet giants with the help of fellow spooks at the US national security agency, Guardian newspaper reported on Friday, a demonstration of the international scope of America's top-secret espionage program.
Guardian said it had seen documents showing how the British signals intelligence agencyGCHQ has had access to America's "PRISM" electronic eavesdropping system since at least June 2010, adding that the data had generated nearly 200 intelligence reports over the past year.
GCHQ declined to comment on the story on Friday, saying only that it takes its legal obligations "very seriously".
Guardian said evidence for GCHQ's involvement came from the same 41-page Powerpoint presentation cited on Thursday by both that paper and Washington Post as the basis for their reports on PRISM, a heretofore-unknown eavesdropping program used to collect emails, documents, audio, video, and other data from major internet companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype,YouTube, and Apple.
Guardian said it had seen documents showing how the British signals intelligence agencyGCHQ has had access to America's "PRISM" electronic eavesdropping system since at least June 2010, adding that the data had generated nearly 200 intelligence reports over the past year.
GCHQ declined to comment on the story on Friday, saying only that it takes its legal obligations "very seriously".
Guardian said evidence for GCHQ's involvement came from the same 41-page Powerpoint presentation cited on Thursday by both that paper and Washington Post as the basis for their reports on PRISM, a heretofore-unknown eavesdropping program used to collect emails, documents, audio, video, and other data from major internet companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype,YouTube, and Apple.
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