Senator from montana. Mr. Daines mr. President , americans want their privacy protected. For far too long the patriot act and the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, commonly referred to as fisa has been used to trample the Civil Liberties of american citizens. For montanans the right to privacy is so fundamental it is enshrined in our own constitution. In fact, very few states have such protections, but the drafters of the Montana Constitution recognized that privacy was essential to exercise all of the other freedoms that we hold so dear. The fill the u. S. House has sent us does have some good reforms. It has some good provisions in it, including a provision from my bipartisan bill with my colleague from oregon, senator wyden, called the safeguarding americans private records act which would revoke the now terminated call Detail Program which secretly collected data on our cell phones, our land lines as well as private conversations. But the house bill fails to enact real reforms
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For far too long the patriot act and the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, referred to as fisa, have been used to trample the Civil Liberties of american citizens. For montanans, the right to privacy is so fundamental it is enshrined in our own constitution. In fact, very few states have such protections, but the drafters of the Montana Constitution recognized that privacy was essential to exercise all of the of the freedoms that we hold so dear. The bill the u. S. House does have some good reforms. It has some provisions in it, including a provision from my bipartisan bill with my colleague from oregon, senator wyden, called the safeguarding americans private records act, which would revoke the now terminated call Detail Program which secretly collected data on our cell phones, our land lines, as well as private conversations. But the house bill fails to enact real reforms to fisa that will actually protect a the privacy of the American People. And we saw what a handful of scornf
Many of us can ever remember. We know how big the stakes are. I, personally, have been through this myself when my husband got really sick and was in the hospital and was able to see firsthand how horrific this is where you cant stand by your loved ones side and hold her hand and you cant give hogs to the Health Care Workers and they are the ones holding up the phone to their ears. I know we are going to find a way out of this, but to me, the only way we find a way out of this is to make sure we have a functioning democracy. That is why i am so devoted to this issue and all of the things we were talking about before the pandemic from making progress in a big way on climate change. We cannot wait. Doing something about gun safety, racial disparity, economic inequality. We have to move now and the way we do it is with our democracy. That is why we are working so hard to pass our bill that ron and i have been leading, each of us in different ways, for years. That is to make it easier for
Your book is a world tour that begins in quincy washington my coauthor and i chose quincy washington because of the Data Center Capital the world its near the Columbia River are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power that is cheap and clean, we take the reader on a tour of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century, the mammoth buildings, more than 20 of them filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries but of course mostly supercomputers, everything that we do, almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud which is in one of the data centers. Your 100 of these and 20 countries is that correct. More than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers, microsoft is one of the largest but cavities like google, amazon, facebook, apple were all building more and more of these data centers, its were restoring our data they become among other things the Largest Consumer of electricity in the world. So if i send an em