Welcome back for the 2019 cato surveillance conference, i am still Julian Sanchez a senior fellow here and im pleased to welcome you for the afternoon session there is more fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup of smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and project, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance space this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals may conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. applause thanks julian and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discr
Fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup and smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and freedom, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance based in this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. [applause] thank you and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates in favor of americans and against foreigners in a dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States. Inside the United States it is rel
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
From the Security Community there is a wide understanding that you cant prevent incidents. But that understanding hasnt always made its way to Corporate Leaders and to policymakers. So having the response the processes in place to respond and recover from an incident we also see are critically important. And then i think to the point of the question i think we have to remember if you go back to aris presentation earlier in the day, this is one element of many that are going on that industry is undertaking, that the federal government, that the state government, International Governments are undertaking to help manage this problem, and we think together we hope that, obviously, it will have the approach of making things better out there. David, if i could just build on adams comments and i agree with him and particularly the last one about how many things we are dealing with here and you know in thinking about the title of the event as to whether were gaining traction or losing ground,
To the cade the American Public and educate american legislators about what is going on in their state relative to canadian business. That really has to be done in the legislative offices. Not necessarily in d. C. But maybe in the district offices where people who work for Canadian Companies or have relationships with Canadian Companies are talking to those legislators. Danielle, lets give you a chance to weigh back in here. Congressman suggesting that it is less and less likely the president approves the pipeline. What is your view here what youre hearing about, trying to push it through congress, on the legislative side . Or whether this project ends up being shut down by the president . Well, i mean i would agree with the congressman about the likelihood on keystone, perhaps being rejected. And the reason for that is, not political. I think that there as been a strong case made against the pipeline on a number of issues. That includes the climate impacts. What weve learned what amer