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Obama defends U.S. surveillance programs

2013-06-07 69 Dailymotion

U.S. President Barack Obama staunchly defends U.S. government programs conducting surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet activity, insisting that they were conducted with broad safeguards to protect against abuse.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about."<br/> <br />Obama insists that the surveillance programs have struck the right balance between keeping Americans safe and protecting their privacy.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SAYING:<br/> <br />"They help us prevent terrorist attacks."<br/> <br />The Washington Post reported late on Thursday that federal authorities have been tapping into the central servers of companies including Google, Apple and Facebook.<br/> <br />This following concerns sparked by a report that the U.S. National Security Agency had been mining phone records from millions of customers of a subsidiary of Verizon Communications.

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