Scoring Obama's NSA Speech, Point by Point

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Scoring Obama's NSA Speech, Point by Point
President Barack Obama speaks during an Expanding College Opportunity event, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Credit: Carolyn Kaste

This post was updated on Jan. 17 at 12:30 p.m. ET.

Privacy advocates kept score during Barack Obama's speech on government surveillance Friday, during which he announced an overhaul to the NSA's metadata program.

After months of reports on NSA surveillance based on leaked secret documents, Obama laid out reforms to the agency's procedures. After his speech, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a scorecard the group used to track Obama's speech.

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The graphic (below) includes 12 of what the EFF calls "common-sense fixes that the President could -- and should -- announce," as well as a column to mark a score for each reform.

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"Fixing all of them will go a long way toward restoring America’s trust in its government and resolving some of the most egregious civil liberties abuses of the NSA," EFF directors Cindy Cohn and Rainey Reitman wrote in a blog post.

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