1 00:00:00,704 --> 00:00:03,955 the government is monitoring private phone calls 2 00:00:03,955 --> 00:00:07,458 your children and my my children private phone calls and tracking who their associates are 3 00:00:19,595 --> 00:00:24,138 this June we learned that out private lives are not longer private 4 00:00:24,292 --> 00:00:27,299 the US government is secretly tracking the emails 5 00:00:27,299 --> 00:00:31,144 purchases, text messages, location and phone calls 6 00:00:31,144 --> 00:00:33,467 of people all over the world 7 00:00:33,467 --> 00:00:36,206 Ed Rooney 8 00:00:36,206 --> 00:00:39,224 with code names like PRISM and XKEYSCORE 9 00:00:39,224 --> 00:00:42,371 this network of monitoring programs 10 00:00:42,371 --> 00:00:44,740 is just one part of largest survailance system in the history 11 00:00:44,740 --> 00:00:49,708 it is open and and it is illegal and operates in total secrecy. 12 00:00:49,708 --> 00:00:52,828 Under the system the government can know where you have been, 13 00:00:52,828 --> 00:00:55,204 where you are, and where you're going. 14 00:00:55,204 --> 00:00:58,174 The program was only exposed when former 15 00:00:58,174 --> 00:01:01,095 NSA contractor Edward Snoden leaked documents 16 00:01:01,095 --> 00:01:03,617 detailing the extensive data collection. 17 00:01:03,617 --> 00:01:07,342 I've got information man new shit is come to light. 18 00:01:07,342 --> 00:01:08,874 The presidcent, the NSA 19 00:01:08,874 --> 00:01:11,262 and their lawyers have tried to deflect the public outrage 20 00:01:11,518 --> 00:01:15,632 by distortign the facts and misleading the public about the process 21 00:01:15,632 --> 00:01:21,440 US courts have never allowed the government to run a spying program of this scale. 22 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:22,182 So how this happen? 23 00:01:22,182 --> 00:01:25,972 Well, lets take a step back, for a minute. 24 00:01:26,971 --> 00:01:33,364 America's founders hated oppressive British survailance and unreasonable search and seizure. 25 00:01:33,406 --> 00:01:36,249 the issue here is independence. 26 00:01:36,249 --> 00:01:41,050 Understandign the privacy was necessary to almost every basic right in our constitution. 27 00:01:41,050 --> 00:01:43,081 They established the forth amendment. 28 00:01:43,081 --> 00:01:47,781 The 4th amendment exist to prevent the government from tracking or searching your personal information, 29 00:01:48,025 --> 00:01:51,491 unless they have good reason to believe a crime is happening 30 00:01:51,491 --> 00:01:55,195 it's all there in black and white clear and crystal. 31 00:01:55,367 --> 00:02:00,592 Using the NSA the US government is violating the highest law of the country, the Constitution. 32 00:02:03,554 --> 00:02:06,992 Government surveillance has gone on for decades. 33 00:02:07,393 --> 00:02:09,474 but things got a lot worse 34 00:02:09,474 --> 00:02:10,312 in 2001 35 00:02:10,312 --> 00:02:12,444 when the congress passed the patriot act 36 00:02:12,444 --> 00:02:14,742 giveing secret ... court more authority 37 00:02:14,742 --> 00:02:17,117 to grant survalance request 38 00:02:17,117 --> 00:02:18,691 on a large scale 39 00:02:18,691 --> 00:02:20,802 instead of getting a warant for individual person 40 00:02:20,802 --> 00:02:21,707 suspected of crime 41 00:02:21,707 --> 00:02:24,415 the governemnt can search a large list of persons 42 00:02:24,415 --> 00:02:27,669 even though under the no suspssiion of criminal activity 43 00:02:27,669 --> 00:02:31,510 FISa courts aren't required to what court orders have been approved 44 00:02:31,510 --> 00:02:33,668 and according evedance is needed 45 00:02:33,668 --> 00:02:36,060 under the 1789 request for authorizing 46 00:02:36,060 --> 00:02:38,682 one was withdrawn by the government 47 00:02:38,682 --> 00:02:41,550 all the other one were grandted 48 00:02:41,550 --> 00:02:43,392 it is a rubish stamp 49 00:02:43,392 --> 00:02:45,056 all of this is protected by 50 00:02:45,056 --> 00:02:45,976 secricy 51 00:02:45,976 --> 00:02:47,860 with no system for checks and balances 52 00:02:47,860 --> 00:02:49,978 if the NSA is collectiing information 53 00:02:49,978 --> 00:02:52,808 on you based on what you read, or the websites you go to 54 00:02:52,808 --> 00:02:55,974 you'll likly never know or get to stop it 55 00:02:55,974 --> 00:02:57,577 no matter who you are 56 00:02:57,577 --> 00:02:59,642 programs like PRISM 57 00:02:59,642 --> 00:03:01,327 completley ignore the purpose of 58 00:03:01,327 --> 00:03:02,736 warants while claiming 59 00:03:02,736 --> 00:03:03,832 to work within the law. 60 00:03:03,832 --> 00:03:08,222 the US government have turned the internte we love into something never intended to be 61 00:03:08,222 --> 00:03:15,834 a tool for survaling everyone. 62 00:03:15,834 --> 00:03:18,472 this is the most essential problem. 63 00:03:18,472 --> 00:03:19,972 thought the secret courts 64 00:03:19,972 --> 00:03:21,431 and secret inperpertation 65 00:03:21,431 --> 00:03:23,521 of the laws 66 00:03:23,521 --> 00:03:24,974 US government agents can illegally track 67 00:03:24,974 --> 00:03:26,801 a user based on things like 68 00:03:26,801 --> 00:03:28,308 key words 69 00:03:28,308 --> 00:03:30,448 ... who uses web for web portal 70 00:03:30,448 --> 00:03:32,474 data has been collected 71 00:03:32,474 --> 00:03:34,310 for years 72 00:03:34,310 --> 00:03:35,892 73 00:03:35,892 --> 00:03:37,556 of the most popular websites 74 00:03:37,556 --> 00:03:48,169 gmail, facebook, yahoo, and many more 75 00:03:48,169 --> 00:03:49,921 this 1000 of words that government can track. 76 00:03:49,921 --> 00:04:02,255 words like "marijuana" 77 00:04:02,255 --> 00:04:03,806 almost any email 78 00:04:03,806 --> 00:04:04,676 you send 79 00:04:04,676 --> 00:04:06,359 might get your account monitored 80 00:04:06,359 --> 00:04:08,892 this kind of tracking 81 00:04:08,892 --> 00:04:10,974 can make you second 82 00:04:10,974 --> 00:04:12,395 guess what you say 83 00:04:12,395 --> 00:04:15,645 that's why ... spying is unconstitutional 84 00:04:15,645 --> 00:04:17,890 absues are inividbale and data leaks are already happneding 85 00:04:17,890 --> 00:04:20,806 spying on out internet usage give our governemnt 86 00:04:20,806 --> 00:04:22,869 power over our lives 87 00:04:22,869 --> 00:04:23,973 what happens to 88 00:04:23,973 --> 00:04:24,985 free speach 89 00:04:24,985 --> 00:04:25,804 free assosiation 90 00:04:25,804 --> 00:04:27,029 or free press 91 00:04:27,029 --> 00:04:29,472 when everyone is under constant survalance 92 00:04:29,472 --> 00:04:36,221 even in our provate moments