Morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and i wro
Thanks for joining us this hour. Google and facebook Business Models threaten human rights by being based on surveillance according to a new Amnesty International reports the Group Alleges the tech giants violate privacy and freedom of expression argument in a question about reports. On this Day International released a report outlining how facebook and google up use human rights and that its increasing dominance over the new Global Public square controlling the main channels the companys surveillance based Business Model forces people to make a fast whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse their report accuses google and facebook of violating the right to privacy on an unprecedented scale as well as freedom of expression. Not only does it represent an intrusion into billions of peoples private lives that can never be necessary or proportionate but the companies have conditioned access to their services on
Never a dull day thank you very much and. Well the other story that were following is police in britain have been given extra time to question a truck driver after the bodies of 39 people were found in his vehicle just east of london on wednesday its been confirmed that they were all chinese citizens the bodies were found in the train or in essex after it had arrived from a port in belgian lawrence lee has the latest now. Well the news of the day that the 39 were chinese has led to media speculation that they could have been weak as from the west of china the leaders of course heavily persecuted by the Chinese State there are weaker refugees already in turkey there are overland routes towards western europe through turkey through comes like bug area and greece and so on the belgian and the british Authorities Say that they notice to spike in attempts of people trafficking from belgian since the french authorities closed down the camps in cali and dunkirk and so it seems the criminal ga
Democratic forces coalition that weve seen again this is an explosion which happened in the town sent a few people were injured nothing major was targeted but again it goes to show how precarious the situation is even in the areas which are under the control of Syrian Forces right now we are also hearing that there have been clashes outside of this proposed peace own cease fire zone. And russell and south of these 2 towns there have been fighting according to the Syrian Democratic forces these are these have been attacks that are launched bias turkey backed forces into these villages which has resulted in the fleeing of civilians as well from these areas again this is only coming from the Syrian Democratic forces we havent had any confirmation from the Turkish Military on that yet on the diplomatic front weve weve heard again in the last 12 hours or so you if you want to recap the Syrian Democratic forces general muslim speaking to both leaders of russia and the United States praising
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