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President Obama Announces Changes to the NSA

President Obama has announced major changes to the way US intelligence agencies gather electronic information, like accessing the phone records of millions of Americans.

In Washington, President Obama has announced major changes to the way US intelligence agencies gather electronic information. Particularly the way it routinely accesses, collects and stores the phone records of millions of Americans. Mark Whitaker gets reaction to the news from Brett Max Kaufman, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.
Plus, we discover how many billionaires there are in Asia with the Editor of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Matt Miller and we find out more about the man behind Fox News from Market Place's Kai Rysdall.
Mark's guest on the programme to discuss the day's news from Australia is ABC News Business Editor, Peter Ryan.

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Sat 18 Jan 2014 01:06GMT

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