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Exactly seven days after iranian forces attacked that japanese and norwegian oil tanker placing those mines on their hull. on the very same day that iranian forces shut down a high-priced u.s. surveillance drone that the u.s. military says was operating in international airspace. president trump called off at the last minute a retaliatory tomahawk strike in response to the iranian attack and now were learning u.s. cyber command did respond allegedly wiping out a key database used by irans irgc w...

Worried about giving the government too much power in this area: constant surveillance. this is a threat to our 4th amendment rights. >> i think so. i had hearings on this i was the chairman of the oversight committee. americans have a right to privacy. you should not have to think if you are going to be in databases and there will be surveillance on every corner whether its public or private. the supreme court in the jones case ruled 9-0 you cant just place a public surveillance on the bottom o...

Planned parenthood rally or the rally for donald trump, thats what is happening. when you get these pictures, they are building a database. i dont trust the federal government. i want vigorous law enforcement, but as an american i have a right to privacy. >> its interesting to hear that. i think in a way its good for police department because they are stretched thin and dont have enough resources. we have had neighborhood watch programs in the past. i dont know how effective that is if you dont ...

To election threats? >> the big threat is we saw in 2016 the illinois database was compromised and i think the fear is that in 2020 if we dont do anything we can to combat this threat that we could have a similar compromise. it ran somewhere first came on the scene in 2016 as a ever increasing threat. but im glad to see dh as being proactive on this and going out and providing states with the services and service providers. i think its a really good, thats a cyber attack threat matrix. it is eye...

Fear foreign hackers may turn to ransom ware. they plan to launch a program in one month that narrowly focuses on protecting voter registration databases and systems ahead of the 2020 presidential election. intelligence officials are concerned that foreign hackers in 2020 not only will target the databases but will attempt to disrupt or destroy the data itself according to current and former u.s. officials. the director of the cyber security infrastructure security agency at the department of ho...

Been through two times that we dont have a situation where one of the states cant be defend on. >> and it almost happened in 2016 when two florida counties had their electoral infrastructure breached by russian military intelligence. so this is the real concern. there are over 10,000 electoral jurisdictions across the country. some of them dont even have dedicated i.t. staff. so you have all these vulnerabilities from antiquated voting machines to the software clinton was talking about, the vote...

Strides in transparency but not transparent data, it is completely misleading in order to reinforce a false implication that one gun violence, it is the opposite of transparency. sounds like this critics is too it is a blame shifting thing more than something that will help average citizens to figure out if there is somebody with gun trouble in their neighborhood. >> if ice wants to use its database to find out who has guns, have at it. they have access in chicago. i dont get the blame game. the...

Data. my question for the mayor is will you allow ice to have access to these or are you going to keep out 200,000 illegal immigrants in the city of chicago and if you choose to do so we have to call it what it is, it is racist because you allow a particular group of people to not complete the database with african americans, whites, legal hispanics or whoever else. that is the question people need to consider. are you doing something to make it better or for a pr stunt? >> that is a big questio...

The nra is pushing these theories to public defenders and others but that is where this is coming from. pushing back on this, the right and the nra are using libertarian type arguments try to stop this because they dont like any database that shows you have guns even criminals or terrorists or gangs members or murderers or other -- put them all out there. >> this is nothing new. >> public information. we will see how people use it and whether it makes a difference because chicago needs some help...

>> im hearing objections from the left, people who say they dont like this idea. a cook county public defenders office says even sex offenders have to be found guilty in a court of law before we put them on a public registry labeling them as sex offenders, they say it is not fair. >> i agree with the spirit of the chicago police department try to do something to prevent the tragic violence weve seen in the community but this database does nothing new. you can find if somebody has been arrested, ...