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Faced with global outrage over the NSA's collection of billions of data sets, US President Obama promised changes to the US intelligence service. His speech has provoked a variety of responses from German politicians. "There's a clear sign of concession," Stephan Mayer said to DW. He sits in the Bundestag for the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) and was positively surprised by Obama's speech on Friday(17.01.2014).