Tech industry: Obama's NSA reforms 'insufficient'

[unhappycamper]

http://www.adn.com/2014/01/18/3279969/tech-industry-obamas-nsa-reforms.html

Tech industry: Obama's NSA reforms 'insufficient'
By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MICHAEL LIEDTKE
The Associated Press
January 18, 2014 Updated 2 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama's speech on U.S. surveillance as a step in the right direction, but chided him for not embracing more dramatic reforms to protect people's privacy and the economic interests of American companies that generate most of their revenue overseas.

"The president's speech was empathetic, balanced and thoughtful, but insufficient to meet the real needs of our globally connected world and a free Internet," said Ed Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, a group that represents Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other technology companies upset about the NSA's broad surveillance of online communications.

On Friday, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and ordered intelligence agencies to get a court's permission before accessing such records. He also issued a directive that intelligence-gathering can't be employed to suppress criticism of the United States or provide a competitive advantage to U.S. companies.

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But nothing he said is likely to diminish the potential losses facing the U.S. technology industry, said Daniel Castro, a senior analyst for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington D.C. think tank.

[cantbeserious]

1. Who - In Their Right Mind - Would Want To Pay For Service - Knowing That One Is Spied Upon

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[BlueStreak]

2. What "reforms"? Did Obama actually define ANY reforms in his speech?

This guy is really good at sounding like he is doing something without actually doing anything.