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And to washington now where some of the worlds biggest tech bosses just finished a meeting with the president. im talking google, yahoo! apple, microsoft, twitter, among others. this meeting scheduled a week ago after these industry leaders asked the government to change its spying practices. and the timing here of this meeting, its pretty incredible. we broke the news yesterday that a federal court ruled that data mining performed by the nsa, revealed to the world by edward snowden, was most li...

Bottom of the hour, im brooke baldwin. youre watching cnn. some of the top tech companies, firms like google are calling on the feds to curb data mining by the government. eight of the firms have now sent this open letter to the president of the united states, to congress, and ill quote from it now. quote, the balance in many countries has tipped too far in favor of the state and away from the rights of the individual. rights that are inschiened in our constitution. it goes on. this undermines t...

New york who has organized a protest in albany today. janet, its good to have you here. lets talk specifically about new york state. your home state, common core was adopt 2010 but the full implementation goes in effect this coming school year so its fair to say there are kinks to be worked out your top five complaints are the cost, quality alleged indoctrination, loss of local control and data mining. and you feel on indoctrination its god uniting his arming. here are the issues you take issue ...

You think its a benine purpose. this is much more nefarious than that. they are trying to register voters and get the data mining, pulling information, register, african-american, latino. this is gear fun for next big battle. >> recommending to do something different on your taxes is recommending you commit fraud. we leave it there. >> its a crime. >> its a crime. coming up, we know some are scrambling to get young people to sign up for obamacare, butope is this any way to do it? ♪ [ woman ] i...

With all of the nsa revelations and spying on americans and data mining im all for data mining and the patriot act and nsa. i dont care we spied on chancellor of germany. why are we spying on americans and getting data wed never have capacity to mine anyway? >> i agree with you. from what i know that people that know keith alexander, i asked about the objective what. kind of guy is he? they say his objective is keeping americans safe. if our electronic advantage continues to grow and we dont you...

With all of the nsa revelations and spying on americans and data mining im all for data mining and the patriot act and nsa. i dont care we spied on chancellor of germany. why are we spying on americans and getting data wed never have capacity to mine anyway? >> i agree with you. from what i know that people that know keith alexander, i asked about the objective what. kind of guy is he? they say his objective is keeping americans safe. if our electronic advantage continues to grow and we dont you...

Certainly i was not. >> so do you believe him? eric? >> do you think i believe him. >> again, like we said yesterday. anything bad that happens, i didnt know about it, i heard about it in the media but neglect thats going for him he takes the credit, the drone site. data mining 11 billion e-mails when president obama doesnt know about benghazi and the irs until he hears it in the media. its a lack of character. own up to the mistakes. people would appreciate you more. >> dana, i dont believe him...

Whether its massive data mining or surveillance of allies or, in your cases, black sites or enhanced interrogation techniques, what others believe to be torture. how do you make cost/benefit analysis that this ultimately not just in the short term, but the long term, will save more american lives than it risks costing? >> well, the way -- lets take some of the programs we have talked about and have become public such as the terrorist surveillance program that we set up right after 9/11, or the e...

Whats the tipping point? >> i think this tsa thing that came out, "the new york times" reported it. theres always been a prescreen they did on your date of birth and other information, but limited information. now theyre just going through these huge databases and looking at anything, your past travel itineraries, personal records, even your physical characteristics, it appears, are where theyre looking at as they do deeper data grooifz. and civil liberty groups say americans dont understand the...

Two things. one, there were clearly problems they were aware of that were not made aware to the president. and secondly, that they didnt seem to have the a-team on this in the build-up to the most important rollout of president obamas entire presidency. i couldnt understand, either of those things. >> well, if youre looking for me to explain them, i dont know i can help you. you would think, especially with a campaign that was so tech-savvy and with the data mining that the obama campaign was ab...