Page 4 - Internet Communication News Today

And we hope the justice department will take it up. if they dont, this legislation would provide for the state attorneys general. >> as you said, its bipartisan. theres a similar bill in the house. theres a lot of backlash from the major tech companies worried about what regulation might do to their companies or plat force. youre a republican. you support the free markets. you are in favor of less regulation. how do you calm the concerns of those who say that this is too much regulation of the i...

Calling a loved one so as we head into 2016. cnns tom foreman looks at the influence of iphone technology on our everyday lives. when the ball comes down, the phones will go up as millions take pictures to welcome the new year. and in many ways, each click is testament to the earth-shaking impact of one product. to understand you have to go back to 2007 when the cell phone industry was exploding. >> everybody loves chocolate. >> reporter: and everybody thought it might be a big mistake for com...

The defense has stated to the jury that the defendant will testify and hes going to tell his whole story. >> how unusual is that? >> extremely rare. you have a kid who is 18 that doesnt -- >> 18 at the time, but 19 now. >> the traditional collateral acts of criminal conduct, things of that nature, seem to be out when youre dealing with this kid. theyve really watered him down. >> what do you mean watered him down? >> harry potter is sitting in the courtroom. the prosecutor addressed it yesterday...

This request? >> they are sending secret messages, thats his whole point. hes saying as isis send out relentlessly these messages on twitter urging people to carry out attacks, as soon as they find someone willing to engage them they immediately move it into an area where the fbi cant see it even with a court order. of course its pretty clear now that a huge amount of internet communication is now encrypted, meaning that it is encoded at the point where the person taps into a cell phone and isnt...

Soldiers are not in my house >> because your home is outside onto the internet communication with loved ones, the medical information, internet. john: with terrorism they claimed 50 incidents. >> they are wrong they have not substantiated with any real evidence in the best experts senator udall and senator weinstock -- senator white in disagree that this has prevented any terrorism. if it goes to the supreme court then they will stop. if congress does not like the of law that congress wrote that...

Soldiers are not in my house >> because your home is outside onto the internet communication with loved ones, the medical information, internet. john: with terrorism they claimed 50 incidents. >> they are wrong they have not substantiated with any real evidence in the best experts senator udall and senator weinstock -- senator white in disagree that this has prevented any terrorism. if it goes to the supreme court then they will stop. if congress does not like the of law that congress wrote that...

Courtesy of "the guardian." ask them is this the only tool that was used? in other words, what does that really prove? because if foiling those terror plots just came from the use of phone records or internet communication, then okay, but hes saying it took more than that. >> well, even if there were 100 terror plots thwarted, hes making an "ends justify the means" argument, because clearly the laws are at issue, the patriot act, and fisa do not contemplate any domestic surveillance. the fisa co...

Edward snowden continues to leak classified information to the press, while maintaining he isnt a spy for china. meanwhile, snowdens father talks exclusively to fox news. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details. >> reporter: as the president arrived in europe for a summit of world leaders, nsa leaker edward snowden dropped another bombshell. this time he provided documents to the guardian newspaper about a plot by the british equivalent of nsa to spy on phone and computer co...

Gone public. edward snowden is very media savvy. of course u.s. government has to go after him because he broke the law. politically this is going to be a delicate line. how the administration handles it is going to be a tricky situation. jon: we know that just these developments, essentially the government can look at every keystroke of every internet communication and every search with every american if it wants to. does the president come out and defend our? >> well, i think this is the probl...

Back in 2002 and i offered amendments in 2002, 2005, and 2009 on precisely this point on the business records portion of the patriots act because we anticipated exactly what weve now found. im very unhappy this is being done but im not shocked its being done. we ought to have a requirement that before the government can get even metadata, that is who you called, when you called, how long you called, not the contents, they ought to have some indication that you have broken the law or that you mig...