[mtoddh]

"In a press conference just now, President Obama addressed the NSA surveillance programs, saying "we're gonna have to make some choices as a society" to examine how we deal with privacy issues and terrorism."

Right. And just how is society going to make informed choices about things they don't even know exist?

[mtgx]

They're saying they aren't intercepting audio recording of phone calls, but can we really trust them at this point?

And he wasn't very clear about the online communications, from what I read so far. So probably Skype calls and such are intercepted and recorded anyway.

[waterphone]

Obama specifically said "nobody is listening to your telephone calls", which is probably technically true. There isn't a person sitting there listening to them. If it's happening, it's an automated process and they're being archived, to allow for retroactive search and playback (probably with a warrant at that point to make it more legal).