technology and daily lives and asking all kinds of things like why can t a cell phone provider used to find my phone ap find this? the chief correspondent and editor at large, lance, we will get to that in a moment. let me get to this. when you were on board a plane, explain to me why with these 239 souls on board, not a single person it seems hopped online and used a cell phone. was there no wi-fi capability? one of the things we are not certain of is whether or not there was. in the business class, they had a rudimentary messaging system where you can use e-mails and text messages, i don t think you can browse the web. 239 passengers and 123 were chinese and probably using webo, a popular social networking there. it s sort of a wall between us
ringing, when you make a call, if you re calling my phone, it is not my phone that s sending that ring tone back to you that makes the sound, it is the cell phone provider, verizon, at&t, vodafone, sending that signal back to you instead of the silence. what you re hearing and while you are hearing that ring, it is looking for your cell phone. when it doesn t find it, it goes back. that little bit of hope. the families and i want to hang on to that, that they are alive and the plane is intact. we all do. thank you very much. i appreciate that, sir. coming up here, we are going to talk to a panel about the theories floating around out there and which ones are most plausible. plus, the partner of an and on the plane breaking her silence now. she says she is quite certain that he is still alive. you are going to hear from her. that s next. there s unlimited talk and text. we re working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line
supreme court. senator, what do you want the outcome from this lawsuit to be? what do you want the administration to do? protect the fourth amendment. we want them to protect the right to privacy. we want them to understand that we are not willing to trade our liberty for security, that we think we can have security, that we can defend against terrorism. that doesn t mean every individual american has to give up their privacy. we think we can have both, but we are upset that this president doesn t seem too concerned with our right to privacy. so you are looking for the administration, president obama specifically, to turn to the nsa and say, hey, be moreville gent when you ask for a warrant? yeah. you know, i have introduced legislation to make it specific. when the president goes to the court and issues a war ant for the cell phone records in the country we want the cell phone provider to be able to appeal
say send a text message could actually be an aid in terms of their decision about what the ultimate cause of the accident was. a deterrent, perhaps. alexander, i assume with aclu, you may have issues with police seizing someone s cell phone. they say if they have reasonable ground to check the cell phone records to see if you were texting or making calls. the problem is the constitution doesn t allow searches based on reasonable suspicion of things and it doesn t allow searches generally speaking without search warrants. and so this is a problem, properly identified, but there s a solution, the solution being cell phones preexist automobiles. go to a judge, get a search warrant. once you do that, you can search a person s cell phone records to see whether they have been texting while driving. generally speaking what someone can do on the phone doesn t enable them to delete the records from the cell phone
already under intense pressure for its aggressive prosecution of leakers and targeting of journalists, the white house is again on defense, after a report in the uk s guardian newspaper revealed the country s national security agency has been secretly collecting the phone records of tens of millions of americans. the government was able to do is so using a top-secret court order issued last month that gave the nsa access to verizon phone records. according to the guardian, it is not known whether verizon is the only cell phone provider to be targeted with such an order. although previous reporting has suggested the nsa has collected cell records from all major mobile networks. civil liberties groups have responded to the news with outrage. the aclu called the program beyond orwellian. while the center for technology said it was an abuse of the patriot act on a massive scale. responding today, a senior white