100,000 in cash prizes with a grand prize of 5,000. For more information go to our web site, studentcam. Org. Next, a conference on government surveillance and privacy. Law professors, Security Experts and former government officials talk about oversight of the Intelligence Community. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to the cato institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here, and im grateful to everyone who has come out bright and early to the cato auditorium for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by foreman nsa contractor edward snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency, unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by a report from the, from the Inte
Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Hayek auditorium here at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by form and as a contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment preceding kick off in significant part by a report from the Intelligence Community inspector general. We have forthcoming next week ill breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, actually would be from the House Intelligence Committees. Even intelligence overseers are at the senate and the sense of our political discourse in a way the intelligence agencies itself began to be earlier in this cycle in a in a way that was unp
Applicable to antiterrorism methods, i dont know. I think all of these models are heavily data driven. So one would need a lot of data. But to the point that these models, these predictive modelling are able to predict things that may relate indirectly to terrorism or criminal activities, the systems are suggesting that we are going that way. Other thoughts on that question . Theres a system in chicago that the Chicago Police department has deployed which both has been touted and criticized, but it does somewhat the neighborhood or block level predictive deprediction bs as to criminal activity as well as i understand individual level identifying people who may be either victims of crimes or perpetrators of crimes. Again, both touted and highly criticized. Any thoughts or comments . One quick one creating a feedback loop. You see every crime that occurs on corner acts and draw an overdrawn example that you thought it was real dangerous. Thats the main one from my perspective. So this is
Protected. Fourth amendment, mike, you talked about the balance between government requests and your customers privacy, do you think the government should have a warrant every time it accesses your customers records . Particularly if theyre american customers. Yeah. Certainly in the Law Enforcement context weve advocated for a reform of that that would in effect require a warrant for access to any content regardless of the age to precise location information, other sensitive data. You know, im not sure we gould so far to say that a warrant is required for every single case for every single data type. We certainly need to update the rules so that there is appropriate judicial review of surveillance programs and specific requests that we get for data. In terms of thirdparty doctrine, would you then essentially not have it be an absolute exception to the Fourth Amendment but essentially where would grow with it to provide some protection but not necessarily a full warrant protection . Yea