President Barack Obama has made a number of restrictions on the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA), which broke the scandal around after numerous revelations of former CIA officer Edward Snowden. In particular, the American intelligence agencies now banned listen to telephone conversations without court approval of a secret court to oversee foreign intelligence. On this, Obama said, speaking in a report to the Ministry of Justice, the TV channel Fox News. Head of Administration of the United States stressed that the intelligence agencies collected data will be used exclusively to combat terrorism, protect troops and allies, and to fight crime. In regard to surveillance of terrorist organizations, will now be heard only the phone numbers of people, only directly connected with terrorists. Obama also introduced a ban on surveillance for leaders of friendly U.S. states. “The heads of state and government, with whom we work closely and on the cooperation which we depend, must be sure that we treat them as partners,” – Obama said. Estimated sources in the White House, this measure could affect about a dozen countries. Defenders to prohibitive initiatives Obama reacted been critical, saying that it only removes the burden of responsibility for surveillance with the state, transferring it to a private company, which “will be engaged to her instead of the NSA.” According to Steven Hawkins, head of the international human rights organization Amnesty International, changing the rules of collecting information not relevant to the fundamental problem – to oogromnym datasets, which is already available to the security services.
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