Obama Unveils Some Limits on Government Surveillance

WASHINGTON — President Obama, declaring that advances in technology had made it harder “to both defend our nation and uphold our civil liberties,” announced carefully calculated changes to surveillance policies on Friday, saying he would restrict the ability of intelligence agencies to gain access to telephone data, and would ultimately move that data out of the hands of the government. 

But Mr. Obama left in place significant elements of the broad surveillance net assembled by.. Read more + video.

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