Today NSA director Keith Alexander told the House Intelligence Committee that the government's surveillance programs have thwarted roughly 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange.
But there are still plenty of Americans concerned about the government monitoring their phone calls and emails.
Which may be why Apple offers this helpful suggestion: Use iMessage. Apple vows the text messaging service is encrypted and can't be read by anyone by the sender and the receiver.
It's the latest attempt by tech giants to assuage a nervous public. National Journal's technology writer Brian Fung has been looking into this and he joins the show with more.
Apple says iMessage, FaceTime are safe from NSA surveillance
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Take Two for June 18, 2013
- House committee weighs tough immigration bill
- Many migrants who die crossing US-Mexico border are never ID'd
- California officials say 2013 fire season could be state's worst in a century
- Apple says iMessage, FaceTime are safe from NSA surveillance
- Budget cuts threaten far-flung courthouses
- Study: Bullying among siblings as damaging as peer bullying
- Tuesday Reviewsday: Kanye West, J.Cole and Judith Hill
- Taking steps to end homelessness among US war veterans
- Military women move closer to jobs in combat
- LA City Council to vote on plastic bag ban
- Is Soylent the food of the future?
- How does 'Man of Steel''s Lois Lane compare to those of the past?
- Encinitas, Solana Beach leaders propose sand replenishment plan
- Pioneering photojournalist Helen Brush Jenkins dies
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