Jan 23 Watch Federal oversight board says NSA should stop collecting phone records entirely By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 22 Snowden to address Obama’s NSA comments in Thursday live chat By Zachary Treu Edward Snowden announced that he will make public remarks in a live chat on his website Thursday afternoon. In his address, he reportedly will respond to President Barack Obama's speech on the NSA and U.S. surveillance. Continue reading
Jan 20 Watch Can the tech industry strike the privacy, safety balance? By Gwen Ifill, PBS News Hour Even before President Obama outlined his proposed changes in how the NSA should collect data for surveillance, many tech giants were vocal in their criticism. Gwen Ifill discusses what's at stake with Christian Dawson of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition and… Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch European critics react to proposed NSA changes By PBS News Hour In his speech on Friday, President Obama discussed how the U.S. will change its intelligence gathering practices. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Geoff Dyer, Foreign Policy correspondent at the Financial Times, about the speech and how it was received by American… Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch Obama unveils new limits on U.S. spying while defending surveillance operations By PBS News Hour President Obama called for several changes to U.S. spying practices including ending the NSA's storage of bulk phone metadata. Kwame Holman reports on the president's reforms and Hari Sreenivasan gets reaction from Kate Martin of the Center for National Security… Continue watching
Jan 17 Obama backs limits on NSA phone data collection By Associated Press Video still by PBS NewsHour WASHINGTON — Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government’s control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately… Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch How the NSA used special devices, radio waves to spy on offline computer By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 14 Watch Former Def. Sec. Gates says Edward Snowden is a traitor By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 14 NSA surveillance doesn’t stop terrorism, report claims By Justin Scuiletti A new report published by the New America Foundation claims that NSA surveillance may not be as useful combating terrorism as the government suggests. Continue reading
Jan 14 Former Defense Secretary Gates calls NSA leaker Snowden a ‘traitor’ By Larisa Epatko Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he considers Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who leaked information about the National Security Agency's secret surveillance programs, a "traitor" who did not work within the carefully constructed system to correct perceived… Continue reading