Will go back to the auditorium at the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. Senior fellow, thank you both to those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference we focused on issues of surveillance oversight and this years conference or this morning you heard about an array of institutions and entities and persons who work to oversee the secret use of intelligence collection. This ranges from the pfizer court to the inspectors general to government, billy office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseen the Intelligence Committee is the piracy and Civil Liberties oversight board. Its a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insights into the programs weve heard discussed earlier such as section 702 and section 215 the authority used for the phone records collection program. Im sure it will be a fascinating discussion so i will pass it off to ou
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Address that range of topics. To begin, i have a senior counsel and director of the Freedom Technology and security project. It is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting America First. Surveillance states, this often creates some friction with our allies. Our goals may conflict with their desire to protect their own citizens. [cheering and applause] thank you. Hello, everyone. Www. Cdt. Org. I want to talk about the Global Implications of what i call America First surveillance policies. U. S. Surveillance policy, particularly on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates against foreigners in a fairly dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States inside the United States it is relatively even between americans and foreigners. When they want to survey out a person in the United States and collect their Communications Content for intelligence purposes, it has to show they are in agent of a foreign power. A Foreign Terrorist Organi
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