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Technologies because they think theyre safe, harbor a false illusion that they are. what happens in terms of trying to understand what the actual risk is at a societal level is useful so we have a good understanding of crash causation. from a scientific perspective, it is helpful to understand if someone was using cell phones and that was a cause of an accident, to enter that into the database to get a precise accounting of exactly how many people are actually being injured or killed on roadways...

Unimaginebly vast data base of all of our phone calls, but this is what they call metadata, the number calling from, the number to, how long it lasts. theres location data in there like what cell phone tower the call is bouncing off of. you can use this once you associate -- once you look back and associate a number with a person to, for example, track a persons movements. and certainly look at a persons phone calls or whatever. but thats the data base. its not listening to the conversations. th...

Hear when you hear about senator paul talk about class action lawsuits with the supreme courts new congressional restrictions? >> with regard to how effective they, they are very effective. we have had two very different presidents pretty much doing the same thing with regard to lk trick surveillance. that seems to suggest these things do work. with regard to what the senator says, if i believed nsa was doing some of the things the senator fears they were doing, i wod have been backstopping him....

Hype as the president says? >> you have to desegregate which stories were talking about. there has been revelations about different top secret documents, one of which concerned the massive database of domestic calling logs, not the contents of the communications, every phone call an american makes thought just abroad but between two places in the united states apparently a record of that has been kept and continues to be stored in the federal government. thats story number one. >> so thats not h...

Hear when you hear about senator paul talk about class action lawsuits with the supreme courts new congressional restrictions? >> with regard to how effective they, they are very effective. we have had two very different presidents pretty much doing the same thing with regard to lk trick surveillance. that seems to suggest these things do work. with regard to what the senator says, if i believed nsa was doing some of the things the senator fears they were doing, i would have been backstopping hi...

Hear when you hear about senator paul talk about class action lawsuits with the supreme courts new congressional restrictions? >> with regard to how effective they, they are very effective. we have had two very different presidents pretty much doing the same thing with regard to lk trick surveillance. that seems to suggest these things do work. with regard to what the senator says, if i believed nsa was doing some of the things the senator fears they were doing, i would have been backstopping hi...

With, example one, the critics are not saying we need to have 100% privacy. the president also in that press conference said no, we are not listening in on conversations. he is responding to an allegation nobody is making. nobody is suggesting that government is listening to your conversations, and what they are doing is watching who your families are calling, and they keep it in a database and hold it for a very long time. at some point the government is going to have to step up and justify thi...

Of us and that that revision has been viewed and extended numerous times and the section were talking about has been reviewed and extended. >> this seems very broad, congresswoman. it seems very broad. millions of americans their data being looked at. >> their data is not being looked at. their data is in a database which can only be looked at if theyre americans if theres an individualized court order to look at the data, and in the case of phone records peoples calls arent being recorded. pros...

We shouldnt overreact by taking away from our government essential technological powers that do in fact protect us. >> tom fuentes, is the biggest problem here new technology in the sense this wouldnt have been even an issue 15 years ago, because even if he wanted to, there wouldnt have been an internet or any of that kind of stuff available to invade. so its kind of a symptom, really, of modern times, isnt it? >> well, thats absolutely true, you would not have had this capability. i know during...

Whether or not it ends up in an nsa data base somewhere so that it can be reviewed at a future time if an issue comes up, all of these companies have that. >> good point. >> theyre tracking your spending every day. theyre tracking everything, where you go, what you do now. when you get on your computer tonight, when you get home on your personal computer, those popup ads come up for you. theyre geared toward the way youve spent money on the internet, the way youve shopped, the sites that youve v...