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Further ensuring that individuals privacy isnt properly protected without sacrificing operational effectiveness. To that end, we support the usa freedom act as an effective means of addressing the concerns that have been raised about the impact of our activities while preserving the authorities we need for National Security. We are urge this committee to give the house bill serious consideration as expeditiously as possible, consistent with this committees elaborations. We are ready to work with...

For the purposes of getting on top of this and working with all of you, my question today is how many of these warrantless searches for Americans Communications have been conducted under section 702 . For you, mr. Ledgett. July, senator wyden thank you, senator wyden. The searches under the onlyment, section 702, are conducted under unlawfully acquired data and under approved procedures. The searches are not just conducted by nsa. They involve other agencies as well. We have provided, as you kno...

Far enough in the role reforms that he announced. Did he go too far . What role would you like to see Congress Take up . Our phone lines are open. Independents can call 202628 0205. If youre outside United States, oh 184. Ber is 202628 a very good saturday morning to you. The president s speech touched on everything from phone records, emails and phone calls, National Security letters and five the courts. We will go over all of that on washington journal. We will have a washington reactions from...

The bulk metadata. To be clear, the president called for this transition not because the program was illegal or was being abused, but rather to give the public greater confidence that their privacy is being appropriately protected while maintaining the tools that our intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies need. The bill would also provide Greater Transparency to the public concerning intelligence activities and authorize the Surveillance Court to appoint independent amicus so alternative view...

Rights on personal privacy that are guaranteed to us. Nevertheless, i think we must carefully review and analyze consequences of any proposed notges to ensure that we do compromise our ability to detect threats against american citizens. The sirennot play to song of the political response simply to these people that we are responding to their misperceptions, in many cases, because there is too much at stake, mainly the security of americans. Compromising to please a skeptical and frequently misi...

Job is i get to hang out with other people who are really trying to do very innovative things and be very creative. I talk about some of the data sets we use. Most people still dont know they exist despite great efforts from the city and others. And, you know, a lot of entrepreneurs that were looking for is the way to get leverage, a way to build an experience or build a product before we have 100,000 users using it. Open data is the key way to do that. You can start out with this experience, ve...

Health data palooza proceeded by health data jambs or modeling sessions, jams sounded more fun, we can invite entrepreneurs in and see what can be done and created Real Products within a few months. That is being rolled out at education, energy, treasury, u. S. Aid, other agencies as well. These programs are celebrating the use of open data and hopefully will provide some additional support. I think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. Were excited for that continued sup...

To be someone there. There have to be people working with it who are getting out there. I think this is what this city is going to be really powerful. In terms of other cities doing as well, chicago is doing some really interesting stuff. Scary cool stuff. Theyre taking 3 in 1 data, pothole request and crime report and matching it up with social media. Theyre getting this really deep and rich picture of what is going on in the city. And you can do that with data when you think about it creativel...

Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data . I should be clear. When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. There is also the office of civic innovation. Jays team, shannons team. By having both of those units in place i think there i...

Education, energy, treasury, u. S. Aid, other agencies as well. These programs are celebrating the use of open data and hopefully will provide some additional support. I think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. Were excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the neutral. Future. So, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how San Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Fran...