1 00:00:00,704 --> 00:00:03,955 The government is monitoring private phone calls 2 00:00:03,955 --> 00:00:08,621 your children and my children's private phone calls and tracking who their associates are. 3 00:00:19,478 --> 00:00:23,948 This June we learned that out private lives are no longer private. 4 00:00:23,948 --> 00:00:27,299 The US government is secretly tracking the emails 5 00:00:27,299 --> 00:00:32,380 purchases, text messages, location and phone calls of people all over the world. 6 00:00:32,714 --> 00:00:35,906 Ed Rooney, Ed? This is George Peterson... 7 00:00:35,956 --> 00:00:39,224 With code names like PRISM and XKEYSCORE, 8 00:00:39,224 --> 00:00:41,321 this network of monitoring programs 9 00:00:41,321 --> 00:00:44,740 is just one part of largest surveillance system in history. 10 00:00:44,740 --> 00:00:49,708 This open-ended surveillance system is illegal and operates in total secrecy. 11 00:00:49,708 --> 00:00:52,828 Under the system, the government can know where you've been, 12 00:00:52,828 --> 00:00:55,044 where you are, and where you're going. 13 00:00:55,094 --> 00:00:59,274 The program was only exposed when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden 14 00:00:59,295 --> 00:01:03,097 leaked documents detailing the extensive data collection. 15 00:01:03,157 --> 00:01:06,152 I've got information man, new shit is come to light. 16 00:01:06,782 --> 00:01:11,174 The president, the NSA and their lawyers have tried to deflect the public outrage 17 00:01:11,268 --> 00:01:15,412 by distorting the facts and misleading the public about the process. 18 00:01:15,472 --> 00:01:20,600 US courts have never allowed the government to run a spying program of this scale. 19 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:21,902 So how did this happen? 20 00:01:21,922 --> 00:01:25,152 Well, lets take a step back, for a minute. 21 00:01:26,971 --> 00:01:33,364 America's founders hated oppressive British surveillance and unreasonable search and seizure. 22 00:01:33,406 --> 00:01:35,969 the issue here is independence. 23 00:01:35,969 --> 00:01:41,050 Understanding that privacy was necessary to almost every basic right in our constitution, 24 00:01:41,050 --> 00:01:43,081 they established the fourth amendment. 25 00:01:43,081 --> 00:01:47,781 The fourth amendment exist to prevent the government from tracking or searching your personal information, 26 00:01:47,835 --> 00:01:51,491 unless they have good reason to believe a crime is happening. 27 00:01:51,491 --> 00:01:55,195 It's all there black and white, clear as crystal. 28 00:01:55,367 --> 00:02:00,592 Using the NSA the US government is violating the highest law of the country, the Constitution. 29 00:02:05,074 --> 00:02:09,552 Government surveillance has gone on for decades, but things got a lot worse in 2001, 30 00:02:09,552 --> 00:02:12,444 when the US congress passed the Patriot Act, 31 00:02:12,444 --> 00:02:17,702 giving secret FISA courts more authority to grant surveillance requests on a large scale. 32 00:02:17,921 --> 00:02:21,777 Instead of getting a warrant for an individual person suspected of crime 33 00:02:21,857 --> 00:02:24,415 the governement could now search a large list of persons. 34 00:02:24,415 --> 00:02:27,539 Even those under the no suspicion of criminal activity. 35 00:02:27,539 --> 00:02:31,340 FISA courts aren't required to disclose what court orders are being approved 36 00:02:31,340 --> 00:02:33,578 and supporting evidence isn't needed. 37 00:02:33,668 --> 00:02:38,440 Of the 1,789 request for authorization, one was withdrawn by the government. 38 00:02:38,542 --> 00:02:40,480 All the other ones were granted 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,042 It's a rubber stamp. 40 00:02:42,042 --> 00:02:46,906 All of this is protected by secrecy, with no system for checks and balances. 41 00:02:46,906 --> 00:02:52,598 If the NSA is collecting information on you based on what you read, or the websites you go to 42 00:02:52,728 --> 00:02:56,664 you'll likely never know or get to stop it no matter who you are. 43 00:02:56,907 --> 00:02:59,642 Programs like PRISM, completely ignore the purpose of warrants 44 00:02:59,667 --> 00:03:02,076 while claiming to work within the law. 45 00:03:02,292 --> 00:03:07,642 The US government has turned the internet we love into something it was never intended to be... 46 00:03:07,932 --> 00:03:11,174 ...a tool for surveilling everyone. 47 00:03:15,694 --> 00:03:18,222 This is the most essential problem. 48 00:03:18,342 --> 00:03:22,152 Through these secret courts and secret interpretations of the laws, 49 00:03:22,161 --> 00:03:27,164 US government agents can illegally track internet users based on things like keywords, 50 00:03:27,338 --> 00:03:30,632 Analysts who use a system for a web portal at Fort Mead, 51 00:03:30,632 --> 00:03:36,566 key in selectors or search terms that are designed to produce at least 51% confidence 52 00:03:36,566 --> 00:03:38,602 in a targets foreign-ness. 53 00:03:39,072 --> 00:03:42,606 Data has been collected for years on the most popular websites, 54 00:03:42,606 --> 00:03:46,499 gmail, facebook, yahoo, and many more. 55 00:03:48,289 --> 00:03:49,921 There's 1000s of words that government tracks. 56 00:03:50,131 --> 00:03:56,275 Words like "marijuana" 57 00:04:01,475 --> 00:04:03,806 Almost any email you send 58 00:04:03,946 --> 00:04:05,979 might get your account monitored. 59 00:04:06,009 --> 00:04:09,772 This kind of tracking can make you second guess what you say. 60 00:04:10,145 --> 00:04:13,445 That's why mass spying is unconstitutional. 61 00:04:13,515 --> 00:04:17,460 Abuses are inevitable and data leaks are already happening. 62 00:04:17,460 --> 00:04:21,996 Spying on our internet usage gives the government power over our lives. 63 00:04:22,049 --> 00:04:26,413 What happens to free speech, free association, or a free press, 64 00:04:26,419 --> 00:04:31,922 when everyone is under constant surveillance, even in our most private moments. 65 00:04:35,959 --> 00:04:39,662 Experts on surveillance, privacy and intelligence agree on one thing. 66 00:04:40,251 --> 00:04:44,131 The NSA, Presidents Bush and Obama and their secret courts are 67 00:04:44,261 --> 00:04:47,724 interpreting multiple laws in a way that most Americans would find shocking. 68 00:04:47,724 --> 00:04:50,193 This is allowing the kind of surveillance and collection 69 00:04:50,202 --> 00:04:53,124 that the Constitution was not meant to allow. 70 00:04:53,124 --> 00:04:55,072 These programs break the law. 71 00:04:55,542 --> 00:04:59,545 They violate the fourth amendment and they strip us of our privacy. 72 00:04:59,703 --> 00:05:04,459 The US Constitution was written to prevent government surveillance programs like PRISM. 73 00:05:04,484 --> 00:05:08,507 It's up to us to demand that these ideals be upheld. 74 00:05:08,615 --> 00:05:16,405 Help us stop the NSA, restore the Constitution and keep the world free.