Obama promises to curtail NSA PRISM snooping
Barack Obama has announced reforms to somewhat limit and examine US National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, in order to win back trust following spying revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Obama said in a speech today that he will issue presidential directives promising a number of key changes to how US intelligence agencies collect and examine data.
"Today I am announcing a series of concrete reforms," he said. "First, I have approved a new presidential directive for our intelligence activities at home and abroad. With it we will now review decisions about intelligence priorities on an annual basis." Obama promised that the reforms will make a number of changes regarding the way agencies such as the NSA store data and receive clearance to analyse data on US citizens. "We will reform procedures to provide greater transparency about our intelligence activities," he said.
