Spying: Obama To Set Out NSA Reforms

President Barack Obama is expected to announce some curbs to US spying operations in a major speech in response to months of revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The leaks by Snowden, a former security contractor, have shown that surveillance activities by the National Security Agency are far more extensive than previously thought.

They have outraged human rights groups, who say the right to privacy of citizens has been violated, and soured relations with US allies whose leaders have been allegedly spied on, such as Germany.

Critics of US spying programmes have rallied in support of Snowden

US officials insist spying operations are an essential tool in the fight against terrorists, but the president has ordered a review of the programmes in the wake of the leaks.

In his speech, Mr Obama is expected to lay out plans to impose some limits on government surveillance and increase oversight of spying programmes, in an effort to restore confidence in the NSA.

According to the Washington Post, he will call on Congress to help determine the restrictions.

He will have to strike a delicate balance between the competing needs of ensuring national security while safeguarding the privacy of American citizens.

Obama "seems intent of taking a middle path", opting to "tweak rather than overhaul", USA Today said.

People demonstrate in Washington against NSA surveillance tactics

In the latest revelations to stem from Snowden's leaked documents, The Guardian reported today that the NSA has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world.

That includes data on people's travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions.

Code-named Dishfire the NSA programme collects "pretty much everything it can", The Guardian said.

The newspaper said the documents also showed that the British spy agency GCHQ had used the NSA database to search the metadata of "untargeted and unwarranted" communications of people in the UK.

Snowden had already leaked secrets about mass collection of telephone data and other covert eavesdropping programmes before fleeing to Hong Kong and then to Moscow.

Russia has granted him temporary asylum. The US wants him back on charges that include espionage.

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