Obama Says U.S. Surveillance Programs Strike Privacy Balance
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President Barack Obama said government surveillance programs that sweep telephone numbers and Internet data have saved lives, as a controversy over the monitoring followed him on a trip overseas.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during a news conference with Obama in Berlin, said the two discussed a U.S. program, called Prism, that monitors the Internet activity of foreigners believed to be located outside the U.S. and plotting terrorist attacks.