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Of crimes, it is, at least it seems, for all of us, everything that goes through microsoft, yahoo! google, aol, skype, google and paltalk, according to classified documents by "the "washington post"," dropbox is soon to be coming to this program.
Person in the united states. it's only targeting non-u.s. persons outside the u.s. would that be a definitive legal -- would that definitively change your assessment of the legality of what they're doing here? >> no. i know what they're doing here, a game they've been playing for a while with this particular statute. this particular statute allows the government to engage in surveillance directed at people outside the united states. the deposit poingovernment poino try to reassure americans this isn't about them. in fact in the course of surveillance directed outside the united states the gove...
Frankly around the world is totally out of date. when we rely on so much, the junk mail you get in your postbox has better protection than your e-mail and that stuff you pick up and throw straight in the trash is better protected by u.s. legislation than your private e-mails to your boss, to your doctor, to your children, it's a shocking state of affairs. for the government to say that you shouldn't worry about it is worrying in itself. >> it's hard to get that assurance on spying on phone data and then within the 24 hour period lose that assurance when it comes to everything you do online. in...
Surveillance of americans. it seems like every time you picked up the phone, the government has known what number you were dialing. a secret surveillance program is detecting the phone calls of every single one of us. >> late last night, breaking news of the giant news story in the u.s., secret court orders never been seen before showing the nsa telling verizon that the nsa was going to collect en masse verizon's telephone data. that was the big story of the day until we learned late tonight of a similar program they have the ability to say to tap directly into these central servers of nine to...
He said, quote, i never voted intentionally for any bill that would grant blanket authority to monitor every phone call. senator, apparently yes, you did. the third reaction is from members of congress who do think this is a big deal and who did know this was happening and trying to get others concerned about it. mark udall writing to the attorney general last year warning if the secret court rulings were ever made public they would stun americans saying there is now a quote significant gap between what most americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows....