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
Know, the holy grail of i. T. Used to be four ts which still allows you time to update your systems, take them down if you need to, but you cant take down a water pump to update or patch the latest, you cant take down the water pump thats feeding the washington area, so it makes it very hard to align the needs of i. T. And opt t. , and that creates o. T. And that creates gaps that people looking to create nuisance can exploit. In the nearterm, mediumterm, the first thing is that nist met your name in report, Matt Skolnick to come up with a definition in a good way, yes. Any to come up with a dolby the definition for this government. The reports go to the president and recommendations have to be at the president ial level and actionable for the president. Its not going to be director private sector. It would what can the government do in certain areas. The first one was that nist should find for the u. S. Government what iot is. Its likely to be probably the last definition but least a
Critical point as well. We are always in a crisis and people throw things at a wall but you have to practice for the end of the crisis when everyone is bored and exhausted and going home to make sure that data which is critical or you would not have been touching it in an emergency in the first place has been closed again. It is the boring details that really amount to safety. Its kind of the big data thing of saying its really great that this is available but that penicillin is available, it is terrific, but handwashing turns out to be the number one thing that lowers diseases in large facilities. There is a lowtech and they hightech and an understanding of the components which is where innovation needs to happen. What about yourself . There is this is an extension maybe of the sand boxing. There is a lot you can do it big data and yet a lot of benefits when it is not identified. We can learn a lot from big data about climate change, no pii involved. There are different buckets or dif
There inspected to talk about peacereally palestine negotiations. On cameraing you any remarks should they become available later this morning. Aming appear on cspan in couple of minutes, a discussion hosted by Stanford University on the balance between privacy and ellenty concerns and then will join a panel talking about world hunger and obesity. Later a house hearing on u. S. Policy toward taiwan. For st. Patricks day, we turn to the Video Library to see how u. S. President s mark the holiday. Despite all of this, tip wanted me here. He said since it was march 17 it was only fitting that someone drop by hugh actually had known Saint Patrick area [applause] [laughter] that is true. I did know Saint Patrick. In fact, we both changed to the same Political Party at about the same time. Wins yet have a glass of guinness with a man in ireland as i have with brian monahan, you are friends. More than 35 million americans claim irish ancestry. America is richer. Happy st. Patricks day to ever