Sentence examples for encroachments on privacy from inspiring English sources

The president calls the vast eavesdropping apparatus "modest encroachments on privacy".

Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, are young people not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy?

But he argued that "modest encroachments on privacy" were "worth us doing" to protect the country, and he said that Congress and the courts had authorized those programs.

Lulled, perhaps, by the Obama administration's claims that these "modest encroachments on privacy" were approved by Congress and by federal judges, public opinion quickly migrated from shock to "meh".

He argued that "modest encroachments on privacy" — including keeping records of phone numbers called and the length of calls that can be used to track terrorists, though not listening in to calls — were "worth us doing" to protect the country.

And the modest encroachments on privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers or duration without a name attached and not looking at content — that on, you know, net, it was worth us doing.

But I'd prefer to see him as at the cutting edge of another scourge — the growing encroachment on privacy.

So lives have been saved, and the encroachment on privacy has been strictly limited by a court-approved process to relate to these particular categories," he said.

President Barack Obama insisted that "nobody is listening to your phone calls", and claimed the two monitoring programmes amounted to only "a modest encroachment on privacy".

Obama tried to take the sting out of the issue in a visit to Silicon Valley earlier on Friday when he defended the surveillance as a "modest encroachment" on privacy needed to protect the US from terrorist attack.

He has defended the surveillance programmes as a "modest encroachment" on privacy, needed to protect the US from terrorist attacks.