Full Video and Transcript of Obama NSA Speech

President Barack Obama

Here are the full video and transcript - Say What: Breaking down Obama's NSA speech - from The Washington Post.

The changes, White House officials said, mark the first significant constraints imposed by the Obama administration on surveillance programs that expanded dramatically in the decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. But the most significant change he called for, to remove the phone database from government hands, could take months if not longer to implement. And already critics from diverse camps — in Congress and outside it — are warning that what he has called for may be unworkable.

Reference: Obama calls for significant changes in collection of phone records of U.S. citizens.

For one, the telephone companies are reluctant to assume responsibility for holding data of citizens' calls.  So the word is, It will be some as-of-yet-unspecified third party that will do so.  I don't agree with the aforementioned critics that these changes are unworkable.  I think they're moving in the right direction, and it will take more debates, problem-solving, and planning to make these changes work.

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Speaking of privacy and surveillance, I shared this Dilbert comic strip on Google+, and quipped:

If you write something in your Notes app, can your boss read it? Inquiring minds want to know.

Thank you for reading, and let me know what you think!

Ron Villejo, PhD