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Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a democrat from north dakota. I want to begin with one of your campaign ads. You describe your mom as a janitor, your dad as someone who never finished high school and you are one of seven. What was that like . We did not think it was all that rare. Back then, a lot of people in the world war ii generation did not finish high school, who had to help out on the farm. An eighth grade education was considered the most you could ascribe to. For us, it was not odd. Our dad was always a Community Leader and so we never thought about education as being what you learned in school. Education was what you did and how you learned in real life. My dad was a Community Leader and my mom was the protector of the underadvantaged. The worst thing you could commit from my mother was to pick on another kid. When ....
I am going to have to call time. I just want to ask one single question, which is, one thing that happens after snowden for journalism. If you could wave a magic wand and make it happen, what would it be . , i will let you go first. An International Norm or agreement that safeguards internet freedom, number one. I would follow that thought, but an International Norm or convention that defines privacy rights and empowers people to control what they want to control. More Great Stories to cover. [laughter] i was really worried they were all going to say world peace. I do not want any journalists to prosecute. Journalists will not be prosecuted for doing their jobs. [applause] amnesty for snowden. And world peace. I am sorry i failed in my job as chair, but it was such a great discussion. I cannot can i think a lot ca ....
The push for privatization of social security. That is the blueprint. That is not an agenda i can support. Nor the code7 Many Americans have ever been to. How would you describe yourself . It is stunningly beautiful. People who believe there is not anything they cannot accomplish. I say that is the biggest difference that i see. Here, if you tell somebody an idea and you think you can work, they will say, that is a good idea but that cannot happen. I do not think that will happen. In north dakota, if you have a good idea and a lot of enthusiasm behind it, it seems manageable. We can get it done. You are sitting at the coffee table with democrats and republicans, Green Bay Packers fans, lutherans and catholics, they may not agree on the issues of the day, but they figure out how to get the Christmas Lights up at chri ....
Something that i think is an issue for journalists and citizens for the next 20 years, which is theres been a distinction in law and more generally between metadata and content, so some people have a thought that if government has access to your phone calls, thats really troubling. If they have access to metadata, meaning what numbers are calling what numbers, thats a completely different problem. We in the review group are uneasy with that distinction. That if the government has access to knowledge about whom you are calling and when and where, meaning the numbers, and it can figure out who those people are, thats a privacy problem. And that needs to be that distinction between metadata and data needs to be rethought. Certainly for policy purposes, the idea that government has, you know, your metadata, it can tell a ton about you. Whether its going to be used illicitly or, you know, to target people on the basis of illegitimate grounds, probably thats a risk and not a high one under c ....