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Curated research library of TV news clips regarding the NSA, its oversight and privacy issues, 2009-2014

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Primary curation & research: Robin Chin, Internet Archive TV News Researcher; using Internet Archive TV News service.

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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: There are a number of business interests that have been referenced by some of the other panelists Massie, the ACLU, Matt Greene, John Hopkins professor and many others who have referenced the fact that there are commercial incentives today to actually find vulnerabilities, to find weaknesses in our systems. And rather than work to fix those, rather than work to secure our systems, they actually leave those open. They will sell them to the highest bidder, and use those to enable the exact kind of masquerade attacks, spoofing attacks, phishing attacks that you were describing.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: More concerningly. we see agencies of government for example the National Security Agency which has
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: We can understand the incentives for why the National Intelligence Agency would want to seek to do this. Give them access in novel places, places previously denied but at the same time those same vulnerabilities can be used against the American government, the American people, allies in other cities and other systems and other countries around the world but also in our products and services. Google has had a pretty big presence here. This is not just about Google but every American service around the world and product.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: if we're creating phones that have inherent insecurities, if we're creating flaws in our standards and protocols that every interoperable system relies upon to communicate, we are weakening the basis of our modern economy because America relies more on the internet for productivity, for trade, for economic gains in comparison advantage, than any other nation on earth. And, yes, while inserting flaws into standards may give us some sort of comparative advantage in spying on China, once they discover it they'll be able to use the same thing against us.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: We find out that the benefit of having secrets on other countries is worth less than the benefit that they gain from knowing ours because we put more into research & development efforts than other companies do comparatively. We put more into education and research than other countries do. We put more in military spending than other countries do. So if everyone is insecure at an equal level we don't benefit because we have the best spy agency. We actually lose because we are more reliant on security than everybody else.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: So one of the reason we don't see the media keying on stories that are of critical important is because they don't realize they are of critical importance. And because of this, we are increasingly reliant upon the technical community to kind of do this for us and represent us. Now this is increasingly dangerous over time I believe because what we see is an increasingly disempowered citizen class and even in the press, even in politics because they have no idea what's going on in the world that matters. And an increasing empowerment of people who have sort of elite technological literacy. And I think this is dangerous over time because you will see a concentration of power around small groups, small individuals, who can increasingly impact society in greater and greater ways.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: I personally am the example of this, I’m not the world's expert in technology but because I was where I was, because I saw massive crimes against the constitution happening on an unprecedented scale, and I had the technological skills, capability to do something about it, I was able to change the conversation in a way, make some small contribution to the public that has really had an outside- impact. But we do not want our government to rely on this model because that relies on the actions of individuals– this is inherent, dangerous.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: Stories that have been overlooked- one of the very significant ones is the fact that all of this information we're collecting in bulk, bulk collection is the government's euphemism for mass surveillance, is the unreasonable seizure that is forbidden by the fourth amendment, these programs, mass collections, the 215 programs and what not, collect all of our information but the N.S.A., and the D.N.I. and so on and so forth, they assert this is okay because they apply what's called minimization to it.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowde: They say that if we see you're a U.S. citizen we'll remove your name and replace it with a pseudonym, with a placeholder. We will take measures like this to say an analyst can't target a U.S. person even though we're collecting all of your information and can read all of your information we can't do it by looking at you but who you're talking to. That kind of thing. But this is not done when we're sharing this with overseas allies in many cases.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowde: There was a story that was run I believe last year, late last year that showed we were sharing unminimized information, that included information on U.S. political figures, on judges, officials across the spectrum, private industry, private businesses, private individuals. Their private records were being shared en mass with Israel. This did not get a lot of play in the mainstream press and in the U.S. in the
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