Julian welcome back to the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. I remain senior fellow julian sanchez. Thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this years conference. This morning, you heard about an array of institutions that work to oversee the secret you seven the secret use of intelligence collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties oversight, which has produced a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. What im sure will be a fascinating discussion, i wi
Work of institutions that to oversee the secret you seven telogens collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties has produced ah number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. Will be aure fascinating discussion, i will pass off to our accomplished. Oderator you, julian, and thank you all for being here and to those watching online. It is an honor and a pleasure to be a part of the conversation with the members. We have three of the five members with us today. Two had conflicts and were not able to attend. Am going to basically do something nontraditional and allow them to introduce themselves. Ive seen this do
Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac were going to transition into our final panel. I think we have someone who is able to get our next speakers micd. Thanks. Well just take a moment. In the meantime i can set up again, if youve been following privacy issues for a while, you will be familiar with what is sometimes called the going dark problem, a concern that the pervasive growth of strong encryption presents an obstacle to Law Enforcement agencies especially since its gone from a technology thats in the providence of people with distanced Technical Knowledge and understanding, able to used difficult tools to something that is baked into very userfriendly technology in a way that doesnt require much sophistication at all. You probably use encryption more or less daily without even recognizing just by using a smartphone or a standard web browser. And as increasingly this encryption is not just between end users and central identities that Law Enforcement can approach wi