Fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup and smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and freedom, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance based in this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. [applause] thank you and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates in favor of americans and against foreigners in a dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States. Inside the United States it is rel
The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you accept any changes . What would those changes be. And other than recite your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available, how theyre relevant to the fight were still in. I would end with this. Baghdadi is dead but the cause lives. The effort to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorists groups with a lot of different names are trying to come here to do us har
Reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. Two panels, basically for parts of the act. Im of the panels to tell us the good, the bad, the ugly, why we need these four tools, why we need to reauthorize the program in your view, what happens if we dont, would you accept any changes . What with those changes be . Im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond, and the tools available to Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community provided by this act, how they are relevant to the fight we are still in, baghdadi is dead, but the cause lives or the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing every day. Terrorist groups of different names are trying to come here to do us harm and to americans abroad. The war is far from over. No air force to shoot down, no navy to sink, no capital to conquer. This is an ideology that must be combated and those that embrace this ideology embrace death. The only way you protect
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And thank you for transcribing all that were doing. And thank you to cspan for covering us. Without objection, all members will have five legislative days within which to submit additional written questions. Just a few moments left in this testimony. Well go live now to capitol hill for a Senate Subcommittee hearing on data breaches and cybersecurity. Among the witnesses is the Vice President for microsoft. This is live coverage on cspan3. For two invited witnesses who apparently dont share your commitment to discussing this issues. One is for tiktok. If you dont know what tiktok is, you should. Its a chineseowned social media platform so popular among teens that Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly spooked. For facebook, the fear is lost social media market share. For the rest of us, the fear is somewhat different. A company compromised by the Chinese Communist party knows where your children are, knows what they look like, what their voices sound like, what theyre watching, and what they sh