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President Obama made a surprise appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s chat show earlier this week<\/span><\/figure>\n“Sasha gave me instructions on Snapchat,” he said.<\/p>\n
“One night at dinner we’re sitting there, and I had read that Snapchat was becoming really popular among her age cohort. So, I said: ‘So, tell me about Snapchat.’<\/p>\n
“So, she starts explaining stuff – you can make little faces on your picture, and this and that and the other.<\/p>\n
“And at the end of it, Michelle and I are sitting there. And I said: ‘Isn’t this interesting?’<\/p>\n
“And I started talking to Michelle about the implications of social media and what all this means.<\/p>\n
“[And I] come to find out she was recording us the whole time, and then sent to her friends afterwards: ‘This is my dad lecturing us on the meaning of social media.’<\/p>\n
“And she took a picture of herself sort of looking bored.”<\/p>\n
The president added that his wife – who joined Snapchat in June – and his eldest daughter Malia had “loved” the post.<\/p>\n The show’s host, Jimmy Kimmel, joked that the event represented a security breach.<\/p>\n Email leaks<\/strong><\/p>\n The president also mentioned that his own iPhone was limited to receiving emails and browsing the internet, and would not take photos, play music or make calls.<\/p>\n “My rule has been throughout my presidency, that I assume that someday, some time, somebody will read this email,” he said.<\/p>\n “So, I don’t send any email that at some point won’t be on the front page of the newspapers.”<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton – who is campaigning to be the next commander-in-chief – has been beset by a scandal over leaked emails, while her rival Donald Trump has been accused of using outdated software on his company’s email servers.<\/p>\n President Obama also said that he expected technology to preoccupy his successor.<\/p>\n “One of the biggest challenges… is going to be: how do we continue to get all the benefits of being in cyberspace but protect our finances, protect our privacy?<\/p>\n “How do we balance issues of security? Because people expect the government to monitor this enough to protect them from bad guys.<\/p>\n “But they worry that if government is in there too much, then who is going to protect them from government?<\/p>\n “This is going to be a big debate that we’re going to have for a long time.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Barack Obama has disclosed that his youngest daughter recently mocked him on Snapchat. The US leader said Sasha had recorded him discussing the social network at a family dinner and then quietly posted a reaction to her friends. It is not the first time the president has discussed his 15-year-old’s online activities. In July, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":262210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Michelle](\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/CD4F\/production\/_92095525_2d6325e4-b0ed-4358-aef7-4b2af2e4294e.jpg\")
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Many of the features of the president’s iPhone are blocked<\/span><\/figure>\n