Obama is checking your emails and there’s photographic evidence to prove it.
The President’s controversial internet monitoring program is being spoofed in a Tumblr page, “Obama Is Checking Your Email,” that presents a collage showing the Commander-in-Chief taking a peek at the Internet activity of everyday Americans.
Obama is seen peering over the shoulders of computer users and even taking a look at the smartphones of high profile personalities like Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon and his number 2, Joe Biden.
Unlike the unsuspecting people whose phone records and internet browsing have been monitored by the NSA, the subjects in the photographs seem more than willing to let the leader of the free world view their Web activity.
Voters young and old seem eager to have the President take a glance at their computer screens and those visiting with Obama enthusiastically relinquish their smartphones so he can take a gander.
The parody page was created on Sunday and has gone viral on the Web, though Tumblr said it doesn’t share viewing information for its accounts.
Twitter users were quick to begin sharing the link, hailing the idea as “brilliant” and “clever.”
The page creator has not yet been named and is only identified by a small icon of an upside down cone, a default avatar for the site.
News broke last week that the National Security Agency was reviewing phone records of U.S. citizens, in addition to the web browsing history for non-Americans using U.S.-based search engines.
Calling the surveillance a “modest encroachments on privacy,” the President defended the program in the name of national security.
“It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience,” he said last Friday at a press conference
llarson@nydailynews.com
