President Obama Talks Privacy, Big Data and the Internet

The rancor over Internet security and the NSA has had a wide ranging impact. Tech companies like Google have promised to shore up their protocols to protect user data, and users all over the Internet have kept the the conversation going to ensure that it remains a high profile issue. Now the debate has reached the highest office in the land, and perhaps it’s a little overdue.

On January 17th, President Obama delivered a speech to the Justice Department about the current role of the government security apparatus, and how widespread Internet surveillance programs should work in the future.