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Allowing for the, you know, the data mining, the metadata we are now encompassing. it is a great debate that i think we need to be having. i am glad we will be having it in an open forum. i think the president made the right calculation that its better to have the information. >> shannon: the companies that we use for email and cell phone, very carefully worded statements from them. but its clear that they have to participate at some level with the government requests and they get an order from ...

It cannot keep track of all of the surveillance it performs on american communications. has the nsa misled congress? do you think the nsa had no other choice, they had to keep it secret to some? >> well, clearly they have to keep it secret. i dont think anyone is really proposing that all of these programs, this recordkeeping and data mining, be made public. i think the debate right now is, over what kind of scrutiny within the government there is, and what kind of checks and balances there are ...

Instead of those visionary statements that mied build a governing coalition that could actually do something. we are narrowing our discourse. >> they sell us a government instead of -- >> exactly. >> thats not healthy. >> my concern with that argument is that yes, the political campaigns and yes corporations are a problem. they might lead to a mailer, to a phone call. but nsa leads to an arrest. it leads to a lifetime -- >> its the power of the state. >> diminish that at all, but it is to say th...

We would always wonder whether or not americans are going to say security trumps everything and thats how dictatorships get started. >> im obsessed with adolescent distaupe i can novels. i read them as my airplane reading. its about the authoritarian societies that begin with the best of intentions for the purpose of making people safe and happy and secure. in both the newtown photos case and in this case, its a case about individual liberties and how much were willing to take even the negative ...

Than you having to go through one page after another and read fine print and ultimately be confused about what the privacy policy, which is todays state of play. so were suing them because we believe they violated the wiretap act. lets take it a step further. we always believed that one of the reasons we ought to stop this corporate data mining is because the government was going to get it. and the government can get it very easily on top of the table and now we find that theyre getting it under...

Privacy rights for safety. >> brings up that protection versus privacy debate. on that note, paul, what safeguards do americans have if any that their privacy rights are being abused? >> i think the first major problem that we have is we dont know whats going on. these revelations have been shocking to most experts in the field that theres been such a sophisticated ongoing program of what they call data mining of virtually everything on the internet being so closely monitored by federal authorit...

Revelations this week about secret spy tactics. a visually uncomfortable president obama was asked to change topics and explain what the nsa was doing with the something called -- something called the prism. what is prism? laurie seagal explains what we know. >> what we learned is there is a program and the program is basically designed to get information from silicon valley companies. >> reporter: major tech companies including google, facebook and microsoft deny knowledge of prism run by the n...

Shooting at the theater in aurora. is this some type of profile each of these guys theyre going after, this kind of heroic look as theyre going to kill these people? >> i think what youll find, and that may be an ease ye way of saying it and another way of saying it is this person is going to a zone that most of us would never enter so im not thinking rational. im about as cool as i can be. look what ive done. im ready to face death. >> you think in the case of santa monica, perhaps the shooter ...

But there are alternatives. >> there are a bunch of tools people can use. there is one thats been developed with state department money for use in arab spring countries called a red phone. its supported by the state department and other ngos. >> reporter: as users try to understand how to protect themselves, silicon valley is under fire. >> these companies may be held accountable. i also think some subset of the population are going to think twice before they store certain private files with the...

Dont know. we keep finding out more information about what we dont know. it comes down to your data, your privacy and what you are sharing on a regular basis. we broke it down for you. check it out. >> what we learned is that there is a program. the program is basically designed to get information from silicon valley companies. >> reporter: tech companies like google, microsoft and facebook deny knowledge of prism run by the national security agency. according to classified documents on oh taned...