Planning director of the infrastructure in the us gao. And also jim dolinsky chief executive officer and executive director and with that implementation of positive train control ptc to meet the deadline of december 3t 2020 with Community Hearings have highlighted it is an Important Technology that has the ability to prevent accidents including derailments including the one in washington in 2017. Ptc enforcement and in 2015 however to apply for the extension if and only if that milestone i am pleased to say under secretary chao this is been faithfully implemented for all those of the deadline with that documentation to show the requirements go up with two additional years many real roads receive such an extension since the deadline they continue to make progress on ptc implementation. This provides an opportunity for updates on the current status across the Network Since the end of last year. Witnesses should discuss Passenger Railroads are implementing ptc and at which rate and then t
Member senator cantwell. And the administrator and planning director of the infrastructure in the us gao. And also jim dolinsky chief executive officer and executive director and with that implementation of positive train control ptc to meet the deadline of december 3t 2020 with Community Hearings have highlighted it is an Important Technology that has the ability to prevent accidents including derailments including the one in washington in 2017. Ptc enforcement and in 2015 however to apply for the extension if and only if that milestone i am pleased to say under secretary chao this is been faithfully implemented for all those of the deadline with that documentation to show the requirements go up with two additional years many real roads receive such an extension since the deadline they continue to make progress on ptc implementation. This provides an opportunity for updates on the current status across the Network Since the end of last year. Witnesses should discuss Passenger Railroad
Your recommendation focused on cases and bringing civil actions, as that is beyond the expertise and financial means of most people and it should not be understated the importance of actually contacting the government yourself, not just the federal government but local and state as well. That is something everyone can do. I am not talking in 3 tweets because they are not reading or tweets or news articles, that is not activism. Actually organizing among yourselves, this audience, they need to you, not just the people in this room the people watching on cspan. It is the only thing that will work is if everyone is charming in about it and it is not just about degrees. Back to what we were suggesting before, the encryption. Imagine hypothetically that the fbi developer buys some technology that allows them to intercept and decrypt. Doesnt matter how this would work. That technology will be really useful, so useful, even more useful because there are people saying things they would never h
Some way going forward. That may or may not be clear. It may get up to the Supreme Court in the next few years. I think yesterday the 4th circuit heard a case heard oral argument on a case whether south side data is protected. 5th circuit says it is not protected. These are issues working their way up to the Supreme Court. I think in general justices tepid to be relatively sensitive to how Technology Changes privacy and this is a theme if you look back, the thermal imaging case from 2000. Jones versus united states, the gps case from 2012. Then riley versus california in just this past year this year. Those are all cases where if you just look at the case law, the precedents, you assume the government won would win. Those are all three cases where in fact the government lost. In jones and in riley they lost unanimously. Justices i think republican generally attuned to these concerns and lower courts as well. Were seeing Fourth Amendment law evolve. If we had a functioning congress, i t
They feed on each other. The f. B. I. Is complaining we are going down because of encrypted operating systems et cetera. People are taking these on because they think of themselves of living in a surveillance society. It causes the government to take on more and more sfwrusive surveillance techniques. In the absence of reform, i dont think this is going to be a helpful cycle for anybody involved. If i may, and this gets to the issue ultimately of trusting governmental institutions. That is one of the reasons we are seeing this explosion of this kind of technology, is that folks increasingly simply dont trust the ferguson with respect to their personal privacy, data and all the rest of these things. I agree, it is a cycle that needs to be broken, and the only way it is going to be broken is when folks on the ferguson side begin to understand that they need to be held to a High Standard when it comes to these kinds of investigations. What companies are doing right now is an absolutely ap