the people of brazil offering to help investigate u.s. surveillance against them and reminding the world that he s still looking for political asylum. now, the tech firms invited to the white house today released a joint statement a few minutes ago reading quote, we appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform. i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar. the president s meeting with all these tech gurus was a closed meeting but what details can you give us about what the executives were pushing for? reporter: well, jake, it was a long meeting, obviously, and they covered a lot of ground on it. a participant in the meeting telling cnn they talked about a number of things, including collection so broad blanket collection of metadata, internet usage, phone calls, as well as the privacy law that governs this type of surveillan
president and vice president arrived after that and spent the next two hours discussing the nsa surveillance programs with which these companies have been forced to comply. recently, many of these companies signed an open letter calling for reforms to the nsa s wide-reaching surveillance programs and transparency. those programs have treated america s tech giants like a grab bag from which to mine user data, e-mail, chat, video, photos, you name it. much of the time the nsa isn t asking for the data. it s telling. here are just a few specifics. from facebook, the nsa mines profiles or connections, according to the new york times. from google, the nsa uses cookies to pinpoint hacking targets, according to the washington post. from apple, the nsa made thousands of customer data requests and told apple to keep quiet about it. this meeting comes just a day after a federal judge ruled that the nsa s phone record collection probably violates the constitution. edward snowden, the nsa cont
now there s a question about what the president knew weabout the problems. the white house is reaching out to tech gurus volunteers you maim it. they wanted a fix it web site and at the same time foond a way around it. president obama recorded a youtube video reaching out to reporters asking them to help sign up for obama care manually and bypass the web site entirely. that is why i am asking you to be a part of team obama care. team obama care is running into trouble. no heads are rolling after spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing the flawed site. former white house budget guru is being passed with fixing the web site.
act, we are talking a long time enrollment through march. if there are glitches in the first 24 hours, there is plenty of time to fix them out. what the administration worried about is not that there is tech glitches but they can sustain interest. because the massachusetts model said people signed up early on and they signed up towards the dead loan. so that s when the paeblg signups are. they node to get people to sign up, not just check it out. yeah, of course. i think people would pick up papers in their drug store. they said they liked the applicant. i think a lot of people will sign up for this. my frustration actually is not as far as the website correction. this isn t about the obama administration, as far as i m concerned. this is just about government in general. why is it, pontiac that, government is so dam inefficient? at every level. at every level. that when they new this was coming that the most, that the tech gurus and the
had taken some kind of action like spending less money on groceries or paying another bill in order to pay for their medication. more than half are going to the doctor they are even cutting pills in half to save money and make the prescription last longer. that is really not good. the apple iphone now on sale. tech gurus happy for that? this is the cure for all of the evils in the world. you can preorder starting now. as customers flock on-line to do so it is on the way to becoming the fastest selling gadget in history. analysts expect 10 million to sell by the end of september. as many as 58 million by the end of the year that could generate 36 billion in sales for apple. the iphone is the biggest money maker. 70 percent of the annual revenue. this new iphone by most estimates really has all of the bells and wileses users have been waiting for, twice the speed, thinnest on the market