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How the Government Tracks You: NSA Surveillance

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    the gvernment is monitoing private phone calls
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    your children and my my children private phone calls and tracking who their associates are
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    this June we learned that out private lives are not longer private
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    the US government is secretly trackign the emails
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    purchases, text messages, location and phone call of
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    people all over the world
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    these code names such as PRISM, XKEYSCORE, FAIRVIEW
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    etc. this network of monitoring programs
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    is one parts of largest survalance system in the history
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    it is open and and it is illegal and operates in total secrecy
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    under the system the government can know where you have been
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    where you are and where you're going.
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    the program was only exposed when former
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    NSA contractor Edward Snoden leaked documents
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    detailign the extensive data collection
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    our got information man new shit is come to light
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    the presidcent, the NSA
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    and thier lawyer have tried to deflect the
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    public outrage
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    by distortign the facts and misleading the public about the process
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    US courts have never allowed the government to run a spying
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    program of this scale.
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    so how this happen?
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    well, lets take a step back, for a minuet.
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    America's factory owners opresive British survalance
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    and resonable search and seizer
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    this .. is independant.
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    understandign the privacy was necessary to
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    basic right of our constitution.
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    they stablished the forth amentment.
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    the 4th amendment exist to prevent the governement from tracking
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    or searching your persontal infromation
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    unless they have good reason to believe
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    a crime is happening
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    it's all there black and white
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    clear and crystal.
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    using the NSA the us government is violationg the
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    highest law of the country
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    the constitution
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    gtovernment survalance
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    is goign on for decades
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    but things got a lot worse
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    in 2001
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    when the congress passed the patriot act
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    giveing secret ... court more authority
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    to grant survalance request
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    on a large scale
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    instead of getting a warant for individual person
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    suspected of crime
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    the governemnt can search a large list of persons
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    even though under the no suspssiion of criminal activity
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    FISa courts aren't required to what court orders have been approved
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    and according evedance is needed
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    under the 1789 request for authorizing
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    one was withdrawn by the government
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    all the other one were grandted
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    it is a rubish stamp
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    all of this is protected by
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    secricy
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    with no system for checks and balances
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    if the NSA is collectiing information
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    on you based on what you read, or the websites you go to
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    you'll likly never know or get to stop it
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    no matter who you are
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    programs like PRISM
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    completley ignore the purpose of
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    warants while claiming
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    to work within the law.
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    the US government have turned the internte we love into something never intended to be
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    a tool for survaling everyone.
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    this is the most essential problem.
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    thought the secret courts
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    and secret inperpertation
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    of the laws
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    US government agents can illegally track
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    a user based on things like
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    key words
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    ... who uses web for web portal
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    data has been collected
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    for years
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    of the most popular websites
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    gmail, facebook, yahoo, and many more
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    this 1000 of words that government can track.
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    words like "marijuana"
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    almost any email
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    you send
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    might get your account monitored
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    this kind of tracking
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    can make you second
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    guess what you say
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    that's why ... spying is unconstitutional
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    absues are inividbale and data leaks are already happneding
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    spying on out internet usage give our governemnt
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    power over our lives
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    what happens to
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    free speach
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    free assosiation
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    or free press
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    when everyone is under constant survalance
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    even in our provate moments
Title:
How the Government Tracks You: NSA Surveillance
Description:

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The U.S. Government has turned the Internet into something it was never intended to be: a system for spying on us in our most private moments.

Narrated by Evangeline Lilly

Brought to you by Fight for the Future and Demand Progress.

Produced by Mata Wata -- http://matawata.com
Executive Producer: Evangeline Lilly -- http://evangeline-lilly.net
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Video Language:
English
Team:
Volunteer
Duration:
05:24

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