{"id":336,"date":"2014-01-11T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T07:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2014-01-11T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T07:02:50","slug":"obama-unveil-nsa-surveillance-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Obama to unveil NSA surveillance reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6A9FADE1387288BF85347F84524089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-337 alignright\" alt=\"6A9FADE1387288BF85347F84524089\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6A9FADE1387288BF85347F84524089-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6A9FADE1387288BF85347F84524089-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6A9FADE1387288BF85347F84524089-284x158.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6A9FADE1387288BF85347F84524089-642x362.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6A9FADE1387288BF85347F84524089-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6A9FADE1387288BF85347F84524089.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Washington: US President Barack Obama will unveil his proposals to reform the National Security Agency&#8217;s surveillance programmes next week, the White House announced.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said the president will make the announcement in a speech Jan 17, Xinhua reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be making remarks to discuss the outcomes of the work that has been done in the review process,&#8221; White House spokesman Jay Carney said at the daily briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president has been clear throughout this review process that we will not harm our national security or our ability to face global threats,&#8221; said Carney. He said the measures are to create more transparency and give American people more confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The president has met with lawmakers, intelligence officials, executives of technology companies in recent weeks. He has also been reviewing the 46 recommendations submitted by a presidential advisory panel last month.<\/p>\n<p>The panel called for &#8220;a series of significant reforms&#8221; to enhance transparency and privacy to the controversial NSA surveillance programmes, including tighter limits of the domestic telephone surveillance plans, said the panel&#8217;s report released by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is not clear whether those sweeping recommendations will be enacted.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial surveillance programmes have made headlines and triggered outrage home and abroad since they were first disclosed in June by former defense contractor Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has vowed to make some changes to the controversial surveillance programmes in an effort to rebuild public trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US President Barack Obama will unveil his proposals to reform the National Security Agency&#8217;s surveillance programmes next week, the White House announced. The White House said the president will make the announcement in a speech Jan 17, Xinhua reported Friday. &#8220;He will be making remarks to discuss the outcomes of the work that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}