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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.

On Friday, Mr Obama defended the surveillance programmes as a "modest encroachment" on privacy, necessary to protect the US from terrorist attacks.

US President Barack Obama has defended the spy programmes as a "modest encroachment" on privacy that are needed to keep Americans safe from terrorism.

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

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

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".

The foiling of a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subway seemed to be the kind of success President Obama was referring to when he defended "modest encroachments on privacy" to protect the country.