President Obama: A 3rd party will review the data collected by the NSA

The US government has taken interest in the NSA scandal. President Barack Obama made an announcement that a third party would view all the data that is collected through the NSA surveillance. Barack also announced an end to  the collection of data “in-bulk” .

The third party who will be entrusted with the public data collection is however, yet to be named. In his speech with regards to the matter, President Obama didn’t exactly announce that the NSA’s surveillance of US Citizens has come to stand still, he made promises as to how the data would be collected by the agency.

High priority is being placed to make certain that the NSA does not abuse the data collection and that the public info wouldn't be accessed by the nefarious sources.

President Obama vowed that the methods used by the NSA would be closely monitored by a number of agencies, which agencies’ reports would then be made available to the public.

President Obama also vowed that there would be a close scrutiny of the NSA’s surveillance methods by varying agencies, and that the said agencies would make their reports available to the public. The name of the game seems to be availability and openness of the NSA’s methods. However, a majority of the new surveillance policies haven’t been publicized, President Obama said that tapping into phone number “that are two steps removed from a terrorist organization” would be the main target for the NSA.

The president, in addition to assurances to earning the American people’s trust again said that the initiatives taken by the NSA were, a preventative measure of a repeat of September 11^th, with the goal being the monitoring of terrorist activity. Obama mentioned that along the way, there would be reforms and that the aforementioned initiatives were an ongoing process.

Following the surveillance scandal, it may be difficult for the American people to trust the President, the NSA and the US Government. The mistrust is bigger in the wake of rumours that Apple was closely working with the NSA to give them access to user’s phones.