Obama: To fight hacks, government and business must team up
President Obama issued an executive order Friday to push for more sharing between private companies and the public after cyberattacks. Major Garrett reports.
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President Barack Obama is spending the holiday weekend working on his golf game in Southern California.
Obama arrived in the desert resort area of Palm Springs on Saturday morning after a short flight from San Francisco.
Following an airport welcome from Mayor Steve Pougnet, Obama went straight to the golf course on the grounds of the Sunnylands retreat in nearby Rancho Mirage.
He was playing the nine-hole course with Bobby Titcomb and Greg Orme, childhood friends from Hawaii who flew in to meet the president. Marty Nesbitt, one of Obama's friends from Chicago, rounded out the foursome, the White House said.
The president had no public events scheduled during his weekend getaway from the White House. He was expected to spend most of his daylight hours swinging golf clubs in the desert heat, as he has done on visits to the area in each of the past two years.
Obama is becoming a regular at Sunnylands.
Saturday's visit was his fourth to the sprawling estate once owned by the late publishing tycoon Walter Annenberg since 2013, when Obama invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to the retreat for two days of talks.
The timing of Obama's golf vacation couldn't have been better. Obama stepped off of Air Force One into 80-degree, blue-sky weather as the District of Columbia region endured a Valentine's Day blast of bitter cold air, powerful winds and snow.
Obama traveled to Southern California without his wife, Michelle, or their daughters, Malia and Sasha.
At the end of Saturday's weekly address, Obama wished his wife a happy Valentine's Day, and she tweeted a similar message to him later in the day. There was no word from the White House on how the first lady was spending the weekend.
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Obama told a crowd of industry insiders on the campus of Stanford University that as a former professor of constitutional law, and a parent concerned about his family's online privacy, he had his own misgivings about government intrusion online.
But he said as the nation's protector it falls to him to root out signs of coming threats.
"Grappling with how the government protects the American people from adverse events, while at the same time making sure the government itself is not abusing its capabilities, is hard," Obama said. "The cyber world is the wild wild west. In some degree we're expected to be the sheriff."
Meant to unite industry brass with top U.S. law enforcement officials, the White House cybersecurity summit on the campus of Stanford University attracted only one major Silicon Valley CEO: Apple's Tim Cook, who addressed the gathering shortly before Obama spoke on Friday.
Chief executives at other firms, like Google and Facebook, were invited but sent top network security personnel instead.
People familiar with the companies' decision-making were split on the reason why. One said top bosses were sitting out amid persistent concern over government surveillance, almost two years since the Edward Snowden leaks. Others downplayed the absence, suggesting the summit was intended more for retail firms, banks and insurers -- all of which were hacked recently.
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Indeed, the CEOs or presidents of American Express, MasterCard, Visa and Walgreens were all slated to participate Friday, an indication of the summit's focus on making online payment systems more secure. Those companies were set to announce new commitments to better protect consumer information online.
Those agreements aside, both the White House and officials at technology firms agree there remains a damaged relationship between Obama and Silicon Valley.
"Obviously there have been tensions," said Michael Daniel, Obama's top adviser for cybersecurity issues, citing the privacy concerns raised following Snowden's leaks. "The only way you get at it is continue to have a dialogue and continue to engage."
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