“In a country where we expect free wifi with our coffee, why shouldn’t we have it in our schools?” —President Obama in North Carolina today

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 7, 2013

We are not questioning the legality under the Patriot Act of the court order disclosed by The Guardian. But we strongly object to using that power in this manner. It is the very sort of thing against which Mr. Obama once railed, when he said in 2007 that the surveillance policy of the George W. Bush administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.”
President Obama’s Dragnet (Editorial, New York Times)

The front page of the Huffington Post showing their feelings about the latest intelligence gathering revelations in the US. The New York Times also posted a critical opinion of their president. Ironically, Barack Obama’s office tweeted about providing wifi in schools earlier.

NSA taps in to internet giants’ systems to mine user data, secret files reveal (Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill / The Guardian)

Guardian pic via Simon N Ricketts

Previously: They’re Bugging Everyone