the cell tower yes their business doesn't like the cost so much the other big pushback comes from our own law enforcement intelligence agencies because they use the same technology here is stateside and if suddenly the so-called towers and all those industries upgrade to where they are not susceptible to. the law enforcement loses their ability to spy on those so it's ok to soccer players are privacy to foreign governments as long as we keep the ability to spy on you as well. as the logic of play here and there's the idea that it's you know he said when it comes to your to your security what won't you give up you know what we give up and this in the idea of security so now here you're sitting you know looking at these options and as you said it's why does everyone else get to do this. or i can you know put a bunch of cameras up and protect myself in a way that i want to but they're allowed to and shady corporations and possibly

shady governments that have embassies all of this stuff well according to a.p. lawmakers they've been inquiring about the use of these to graze for quite some time in washington d.c. i think we've even talked about it on this show over the years of them doing because security company researchers a security company researchers back in twenty fourteen had conducted these sweeps and found an authorized devices these on authorized sting rays and they weren't just anywhere it wasn't just a it was around the corner from my house it was around the corner from the white house like it was literally near the white house's pre-court commerce department and the pentagon. so there was a twenty fourteen if you remember the federal communications commission started the task force into the illicit use of sting rays nothing has come from that there offend no reports there's no memos there's nothing maybe someday it'll go to what a task force. boy that if that's taskmaster. good work later well we've got nothing but. another. great job.

there's no guarantee of a successful prosperous career quite like a four year a federal graduate college education that was the an arguable promise of college boosting programs like the g.i. bill and is the foundation of both modern college prep school curriculums and the stunningly profitable college test prep industry and now not only has college enrollment ballooned to historic levels and the most basic office assistant positions on linked in requiring a bachelor's degree at minimum we have allowed an entire generation of americans to shackle themselves to an ever growing college loan bubble now totaling over a trillion dollars but we're pushing young students more and more forcefully into the college that system and enticed ing them with a loan package is worth more than your average home mortgage are we forgetting about their much more basic survival needs it appears so as a recent study finds a thirty six percent of us college students struggle to even afford food while

thirty six percent can't afford a place to live or face the constant risk of having to sleep on the street is the question hogwash is a college education really worth putting a third of generations on the brink of homelessness and hunger who know what but as a college education. i mean. if you have to. start. starving to be homeless because you can't pay the rent just so you can go to school there's something inherently wrong with that there's something wrong with the system that and we've talked about a couple of days now in a row or so they're talking about teachers not getting paid why would you grade teacher is why would you not paid educated teachers that silly why would you do that now here we are the next day going and. you know education. thirty. it's not like oh turn first serve as well now and that's really you know this is the third that's that's that's a big slice of the poem i don't know if you know this but you need food to make

your brain works so you need sleep to make your brain works so you can learn i rephrase the idea. that you are at risk of not having a place to live what you're going to school what they want you to live out of your car well that's illegal in california believe it right if you got it live out of about your car there anymore it is really incredible yes and then when you look at it wasn't just the sort of ambiguous because i know a lot of times with these reports we talk about the study is where the number is like all this thing at risk and it's really not it's pretty ambiguous no no they went down to the tiniest portion of this and they didn't just qualify quantify just the idea of risk they showed that reports that ninety percent nine percent of u.s. college students found themselves homeless and the past year that's almost ten percent of college kids and six percent were first forced to go at least one whole day without food now if you're going to set or a got while you can go a day without food you do it you know goes through your whole day don't have any

food then go to work. and then come home and get up and do it again and see how long that lasts the idea of the you have these are young adults their brains are growing this is where you're supposed to be learning and it's at its big parts because it's expensive you have a choice do i pay my tuition or do i eat or do i pay the book costs and write about my books or do a yeah i mean i didn't go to college i'll admit it you're on television i didn't go to college i love coming out of those zero nine out of the closet on the greek laws under. five to the school hollywood with the. but when you when you look at this is really jarring because when you consider the fact that colleges and not just harvard yale but even the more modest ones as well are sitting on like tax exempt the dolphins were billions of dollars billions for look what we just saw happen at howard university here in d.c. where you have all of this money that ended up getting shuffled off to somewhere else you know that would be your street blood stream. tire around it and then would

you would you see like you know the money is there it's in the system there isn't a lot of you know in these there's money from all those jets and i don't want you stacked the deck of goods because if they're already broke trying to get the better education to try to better their life but then they're going to get out of school and they've got the great student loan debt hanging over their heads they're not going to be able to survive if you already don't have the money you know no and that's the thing it's you know we have one of these two situations and i was one of those people who had to work and put myself through college and who is still a paying off those student loan debts from from my undergraduate degree you know you do have to make the choice you make the choice whether to have a social life you make the choice whether to you know how many hours can i work how much how much can i borrow or how much can i pay now so i don't have to how much money can i put away for after graduation and when i was up happening is that you know a lot of people and foregoing a decent meals. foregoing

a social life or go in the actions about college that sort of help you go learn how to enter into you know the adult world and things you don't get to do what you don't get to be a regular person and have a life because you're worried about whether you're going to end up having to sleep body or car and whether or not your financial aid is going to cover something and then you're eating ramen noodles it's not a fad it's a survival for a lot of me. do the square where you also work to restructure and process and you do not a very dark walk just don't forget to let us know what you put a top or discovered a facebook and twitter see our poll shows that r t v dot com coming up we present the second half of strong storms conversation on social media data mining and us intelligence agencies with journalist and author of a series of bad that we observe the fiftieth anniversary of the cessation of dark market states and.

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henry kissinger once said the brochure in the united states went into the ukrainian crisis acting rationally based on mutual misconceptions with tensions heightened over the scruple case all the sides guided by misconceptions were deliberate misrepresentation. when you don't see. the teachers who are. there to court put it. to me not through only ten per cent. said. clement no terminated that.

alex you speak french. most of. them send them all to new. zealand the council itself. it was announced the facebook c.e.o. and silicon valley rock star mark zuckerberg himself will stand tall before congress on april eleventh her answer for the facebook cambridge analytic a data mining controversy but there's always more than meets the eye when the corporate worlds of big data social media and governments collide sean stone recently discussed these matters and more with journalist and author enough these are mad here is part two of their fascinating discussion. going towards this end of

the obviously collecting information and ultimately creating sort of you create essentially you create false narratives you create false dichotomies and antagonism as you pointed out we have this whole issue of cambridge analytic on whether or not it through you know the election towards trumpet with with and a letter because it's strange because we're basically there there's the this discourse it's sort of attacking the idea of data mining as a whole which is just the nature of business and how businesses are going to target people whether you're running for politics or trying to sell a product right you're still trying to sell some things you need to know the consumer what they want but on the morning farias side they do they've done tactics or allegedly that they've done tactics like bribery and blackmail of politicians and others that sounds very menacing of cia tactics. well absolutely i mean the cambridge analytical what's interesting is we did a big investigation into facebook and came with analytical december two thousand and seventeen we published quite

a long piece on our platform in search and we brought together a lot of things that are only now being caught up in kind of the mainstream press so for example the fact that came with analytic a former major ministry of defense contractor that used to have this tax classification which means they had access to high level security so that a high level security clearance that gave them access to classified information i mean we had reported this back then and only now we've got the b.b.c. asking these questions but what these kind of issues show is that came with analytic and its mek its methods of the century trying to profile. population behaviors using online technologies and other types of technology building them into a predictable model these were techniques that were developed in the bowels of the military industrial complex in the u.k. specifically and they were also passed on to the united states and they've been

fine tuned in that context and our investigation showed and again people have been asking questions now these techniques were used in iraq and afghanistan for example they had contracted outs to private contractors some of these techniques so now they're being used in weaponized against our own populations in the united states and britain and it's very alarming and what we're seeing here is that these sorts of techniques on the one hand of course there's this question of law and finally now questions are being asked on both sides of the atlantic as to what extent when you use these sorts of tools do they really violate our election laws in terms of manipulating public opinion but the other thing of course is that these techniques are being used on a day to day basis by lots of different parties all. time business is governments. any kind of any kind of entity that essential wants to reach an audience is are

using platforms like facebook to kind of to reach different publics and to try and influence opinion and so we're always being subjected to this form of influence in some way except cambridge analytic of course had really fine tuned their techniques and now only now we know they actually did that on the basis of essentially. kind of illegally taking vast amounts of private data which they shouldn't have been able to do. and that of course is quite extraordinary but the question isn't really being asked i mean to day the narrative we've had is that these have some sort of nefarious connection to russia for example and there are legitimate questions to ask about cambridge analytical relationship to russia however the fact that came into our literature has been borne from the establishment in britain has only really been coming to the surface from recent reporting and it's something that really needs to be looked at much more closely

and we now are starting to see evidence that we were reporting last year being discussed in the mainstream press about cambridge analytical connections to the conservative party. from front to the extent to which you know they had really establishment connections not just obscure military connections but connections across the party and huge and clear connections to people who gave very large amounts of funding to the conservative party over several years one of the connections that hasn't been looked at to date is a connection that we reported on related hand hanson asset management so one of the founding directors of s.c.l. election which is the u.k. incorporation of cambridge analytical is a guy called christian to road christian patrick to road who was a director and is a director now.