Human Rights Watch: Obama's NSA Reforms Don't Go Far Enough

Human Rights
Watch is
the latest organization to criticize President Obama’s NSA
reforms.

From
Reuters:

(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has not gone
far enough in reforming the monitoring activities of the National
Security Agency (NSA) and is continuing to violate the privacy
rights of individuals, the head of Human Rights Watch told
Reuters.

On Friday, Obama banned eavesdropping on the leaders of allies
and began reining in the vast collection of U.S. citizens’ phone
data, seeking to reassure Americans and foreigners that the United
States would take into account privacy concerns highlighted by
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations.

But Kenneth Roth, executive director of the New York-based
group, told Reuters in Berlin that Obama had provided little more
than “vague assurance” on the monitoring of communications.

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