>> mooring's, the electronic frontier foundation, as well as organizations as well as the constitutional rights are suing to stop that bulk collection. representatives senson parenner who is the original author of the patriot act, has joined our lawsuit and said as a friend of the court, and said this was not the intent of the patriot act. so yes, there is something we are doing, and there is something

of requests and a subsequent lawsuit from the american civil liberties union and the electronic frontier foundation we finally have the answers just yesterday the office of the director of national intelligence released approximately eighteen hundred pages of documents that shed light on the constitutionality of the n.s.a.'s domestic surveillance program so we now know more details on a program that started back in two thousand and one that allowed for the government to collect our phone records in bulk that's right under this program the n.s.a. received daily transfers of all customer records from the nation's phone companies those records included incoming and outgoing calls along with the calls duration but more specifically the documents reveal that the n.s.a. had been running an automated alert list on the selected phone numbers the spy agency to. i have to list of about eighteen thousand suspicious phone numbers but senior intelligence officials now say that of the phone numbers on the alert list more than fifteen thousand of them or eighty eight percent were wrongly included and according to

the information will be released today after a request submitted by the aclu and the electronic frontier foundation. the civil liberties organizationsanted to know how the government has been interpreting a controversial provision of the patriot act thought to be responsible for ying on ordinary americans. technology companies are beginning to escalate their efforts to publicly disclose information about what the government has coerced them to share. yahoo and facebook filed a lawsuit. asking for permission to reveal the number and kinds of national security request they have received. remember google and microsoft filed similar lawsuits in june. both of those companies amended their petitions. i was joined earlier by elizabeth, codirector of liberty and national -- i asked what we can expect to learn from these documents. >> we will see the rationale for approving a book collection for all of the telephone records. we have a hint of what that rationale is. plus the legal justification for the program and what the court found is something along the lines of what the government put forward in that p

. >> mooring's, the electronic frontier foundation, as well as organizations as well as the constitutionalights are suing to stop that bulk collection. representatives senson parenner who is the original author of the patriot act, has joined our lawsuit and said as a friend of the court, and said this was not the intent of the patriot act. so yes, there is something we are doing, and there is something that hopefully the courts will be able to do to put an end to this. >> is there any indication and all the indication that you have seen, and i understand you have been going through with a a fine tooth comb, is there an indication that other agencies may be involved in some way back door supporting the collection? >> well, it seems like the nsa is getting support from industry. from people within the united states, people like verizon and at&t. the nsa is also sharing its data. we know it shares data with the ceo, with the fbi, with the drug enforcement agency, and today we learned that they share unfiltered raw data with israel. this is data that they aren't even allowed to share with the

the lawsuit from the american civil liberties union and the electronic frontier foundation, we finallyave answers. the office of the director released approximately 1800 pages of documents that shed light on the constitutionality of the domestic surveillance program. we now know more details of a program that started in 2000 one that allowed for the government to collect phone records in bulk. the nsa received daily transfers of customer records from the nation's phone companies. those records included incoming and outgoing calls along with the call duration. documents reveal that they have been running an automated alert list. about 18,000 suspicious phone numbers. senior officials now say that of the phone numbers, more than 15,000 of them or 88% were wrongly included. according to the documents, they did not understand that this activity was a violation of their own internal regulations. the washington post voted one official saying that there was no single person with a complete understanding of the business records syste. it led to a small lack of communication. between 2006 and 2

that release was the result of a request from the aclu and the electronic frontier foundation. now, they say any opinions not already subject to litigation under the freedom of information act should be reviewed for declassification. it is undetermined when that information will be released. >> succession fever seems to be sweeping the nation. we are seeing the largest wave in these type of movements since the south tried to break apart from the union. right now, the state of texas is seeking to become its own country, not to mention parts of california and colorado are trying to break off into separate states. the latest movement lost in maryland where five counties are fed up with the liberal majority and say they want an amicable divorce. we went to an area with some activists that hope this will be the 51st state. >> in maryland is mostly known for his city of baltimore. this is where the bulk of the state's population lives. the population made up of mostly democrats. take the drive out west and you will find a different side of maryland. it is a different way of life in w

electronic frontier foundation is accusing the federal government of allowing illegal surveillance of millions of americans. demonstrators says the case will determine if the surveillance of americans is constitutional. >>> the united nations security council voted to secure and destroy syria's weapons stockpile, it is aimed to take poison gas off the battlefield. immediately after to vote the u.n. secretary general said it was the first hopeful news in syria for a long time. the obama administration threatened to strike in syria. >>> michelle obama is coming to the bay area on a fund-raising trip. the first lady plans to attend a women's bronco october 14th with -- brunch on october 14th. >>> some iphone users are claiming apples operating system is making them sick. the animations are causing headaches and nausea. a discussion has been viewed more than 15,000 times. a doctor said the sickness is caused by the function that causes the background the move which can have somebody people feel car sick. >>> stocks dropping lower. >>> dozens of new police officer ready to hit the streets

and the electronic frontier foundation the civil liberties organizations had been seeking to learn just how the government has been interpreted one controversial provision of the patriot act that's thought to be responsible for justifying the n.s.a. spying of ordinary americans and as more details emerge over the government surveillance of user data technology companies are beginning to ask their efforts to publicly disclose information about what the government has coerced them to share yesterday yahoo and facebook each filed a lawsuit in the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court asking for permission to reveal the number and kinds of national security requests the companies have received you may remember that tech companies google and microsoft filed similar lawsuits back in june however this week both of those companies amended their petitions for permission to release even more information regarding the requests to discuss these mounting tech lawsuits and the implications of this upcoming foyer release i was joined earlier by elizabeth team co-director of the liberty and na

and the electronic frontier foundation the documents indicate that the national security agency violated its own internal guidelines in tracking phone numbers it collects in bulk under its domestic surveillance program the documents also show that the n.s.a. presented a false information to the surveillance court about the violation in fact u.s. district court judge reggie walton who oversaw a u.s. spy court almost shut down the government's domestic surveillance program after he quote lost confidence in the ability of n.s.a. officials to operate it in the right way judge walton gave a blistering opinion in two thousand and nine over the officials who had been accessing domestic phone records for nearly three years without quote reasonable articulate suspicion that those people really even connected to terrorism later that same year our justice department lawyer reported that in some cases it appeared the n.s.a. was distributing the sensitive phone records by e-mail to one hundred eighty nine analysts many who were not approved by the intelligence court to see them this information is ex

and the electronic frontier foundation but now judge sailor says that any opinions not already subject to litigation under the freedom of information act should be reviewed for declassification it's undetermined however when that information will be released. well succession fever seems to be sweeping the nation and fact we're seeing the largest wave in these kinds of movements since the south tried to break apart from the union right now the state of texas is seeking to become its own country not to mention the parts of california and colorado are trying to break off into separate states and the latest movement just launched in maryland where five counties are fed up with the liberal majority and say they want a quote amicable divorce artie's liz wahl went to what some activists are hoping will become the fifty first state and brings us this report. maryland is mostly known for its city of baltimore ritzy d.c. suburbs and high end coastal areas it's where. the bulk of the state's population lives a population made up of mostly democrats. but take a drive out west and you'll find a dif

with the electronic frontier foundation, a public interest group, great to have you with us.en, i will start with you, how does big data work? >> it's very similar. ten there's no one definition for it, no one technology, but typically refers to the fact that we have more data than ever before. simply knowing the what is good enough. >> and the reality is what is out there is very different -- owhat is out there is different than what there was at the turn of the millennium. you write that it was stormed in analog form, vinyl records books tapes and that ratio has changed dramatically, and that has changed everything for big data. >> what we are doing, is we are data finding more aspects of the world. we have taken thicks that have been informational, and rendered into the format of data before, now we are. it is fairly unique to us based on our leg length and our posture, and our weight distribution, so we can create a fingerprint, just on how we are sitting and we can turn it into an antitheft wise in cars for example. ten this whole demand paragraph project that society is

today the government is going to hand over a disc of data to the electronic frontier foundation in sanrancisco under court order. these documents are brand new declassified information about how the fisa courts work and how the government uses the patriot act to monitor your phone calls. the efs victory in this case dates back to before the ed snowden story when they had illegal wire taps during the bush administration. it's a big deal. but admittedly in a string of big deals in domestic surveillance and monitoring of phone calls. let's talk about shiny new things. we take a live look at the cupertino headquarters of apple. today is the day apple unjails well, we don't know what, but we think two new iphones, call them the iphone 5 and then the iphone cheap for emerging market. we should get information about the ios 7. more big news, hue bet packard kicked off the dow 30 industrials. it's not alone. alcola and bank of america. to be replaced by san francisco's visa, nike and goldman sachs. the dow jones 30 is an index of 30 companies. we say the dow is up 10 points that's what we're t