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I remember when there was a big freakout about g mail, because they were going to have an ail algoritm and give you darg etted ads, now i dont even notice the targeted ads. >> you mentioned that, of course, we know that our data is being used to display ads against it. and people are even a little uncomfortable with things like that. but when something is happening secretly with your data and you really trusted these companies, and it sounds silly to say you trust a company. but i think, you kno...

Pal talk, aol, skype, youtube, apple." brurs, as someone who knows architecture pretty well, what do you make of that? >> its hard to tell. theres a lot of ways you can parse these words. what does direct access mean? does it mean i have a wire in, i can tap my own queries? or does it mean im going to ask for this data, for this bulk data for everybody and get it shipped to me? you can call one direct access. you can call one indirect access. im afraid were really just parsing this to try to sav...

Toobin and the co-founder of aol, steve case. its a big show tomorrow, well talk to former president bill clinton, and chicago mayor rahm emanuel and john mellencampp and stephen king. up next the top stories in the politico playbook. first bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> we went into last night at a high risk of severe weather. we we highly populated areas, chicago and indianapolis, made it through without any fatalities or widespread injuries. that is a great morning. it was antic...

And people are even a little uncomfortable with things like that. but when something is happening secretly with your data and you really trusted these companies, and it sounds silly to say you trust a company. but i think, you know, there is feeling about google, facebook, microsoft, aol, all these companies, that theyre different. i think people are jaded when it came out that maybe verizon was complying with the nsa and years ago that at&t may have been doing a similar thing. you know, thats h...

Libertarians are taking it so far if not for edward snowden. >> do you think he should be charged with a crime or not? is >> i have to say yes, but im glad that he did it anyway. i know that he probably took that into consideration when he made these disclosures. just one more point. its fine for us to say, yes, the government has good intentions when they do this type of surveillance, but i dont think we should give the government the benefit of the doubt. we need to understand what is happenin...

Contrast to the phone call program, the verizon program, prism is targeted actually abroad, towards non-u.s. persons, so if the government has reason to want to track data or information about non-u.s. persons overseas, they would go to google, aol, you know, facebook, any number of these internet companies and request information about that. so the u.s. is trying to draw a big, huge distinction in how these programs work and they keep emphasizing the white house keeps emphasizing that pris mg -...

All. change a line or two of code and you have access to things that until then the rules said you did not. someone who has his facility with computers and his clearances can technically get into things hes not allowed to get into. my guess is if he had stayed around, the auditing system would have said what did you do that for and he would have been in a lot of trouble but hes gone. >> i have mixed feelings. im nip wonder. this is one of the real big stories of recent months. there are two prog...

Although those foreign targets could be talking to americans. the nsa worked with companies like microsoft, yahoo! google, facebook, paul talk, aol, skype, youtube and apple. now, americans were not directly argued the, as i said, according to "the washington post." but while going after foreign targets, the program could routinely, thats the word, collect a great deal of american content as well. so they could be reading our e-mails as well as part of this traffic. last week of course of, "the ...

Authorization to go further with another ordinary citizen. >> lets be clear james rosen is a flight risk if you sat next to him. the man cannot hold his liquor. seriously. i like the way you set me up with the question. you asked me how many and they were exactly the same. that was so unfair. so unfair. anthony gait to see you. congratulations. i dont even know what for. but somehow there is always something going on in your life that requires congratulations. >> having a big party tomorrow. >> ...

Security, since september 11th the two are in heated conflict and that came into sharp focus this week. we now know the government obtained a secret warrant in april ordering verizons business services division to turn over data on every call. it is the extension of a top secret program going on for years. the obama administration says the national security agency is compiling data. >> nobody is listening to your telephone calls. thats not what this program is about. >> it looks like this data m...