in may the a.c.l.u. revealed amazon's trying to sell its facial recognition technology to government and police agencies and that led numerous civil liberties groups to join together and campaign against it even amazon workers joined the protest but the technology is already being tested by some u.s. police departments the next of course comedy as kate said you could expect this public safety commission is are already working with government agencies to deploy this technology at the a.c.l.u. we obtain records that show that amazon signed a secrecy agreement with one county to keep details about the technology out of public view they've also invited law enforcement to suggest new features and they offered free consulting to help the city of orlando build its own system that was on his hit back of the a.c.l.u.'s test though saying that it had used lower accuracy settings than recommended while eighty percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of hot dogs chairs animals or other social media u

made the a.c.l.u. revealed amazon is trying to sell its facial recognition technology to government and police agencies and that led numerous civil liberties groups to join together to campaign against it even amazon workers joined the protest but the technology is already being tested by some u.s. police departments. the next of course comedy as kate said you could expect is a public safety chemist on his are already working with government agencies to deploy this technology at the a.c.l.u. we obtain records that show that amazon signed a secrecy agreement with one county to keep details about the technology out of public view they've also invited law enforcement to suggest new features and they offered free consulting to help the city of orlando build its own system. and was on his head back at the a.c.l.u.'s test though saying that it had used low accuracy settings than recommended while eighty percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of hot dogs chairs animals or other social media

find lost children and we can find criminals and things and that's all very positive so then the a.c.l.u. is saying yes but you also may use that as a way to sweep up people there's a possibility of abuse of the technology and there's also the use of it for good facebook has blocked the accounts of rightwing activists in brazil ahead of elections there they say it's part of a crackdown on fake news we'll explain all after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on offense clearly a dramatic development the only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. but politicians do listen to the.

isn't it back at the a.c.l.u.'s test saying it had slower accuracy settings than recommended. while eighty percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of hot dogs chairs animals or other social media use cases it would only up. operate for identify an individual us with a reasonable level of certainty when he's in facial recognition for law enforcement activities we guide customers to set a threshold of at least ninety five percent or higher from amazon's point of view what they said was that the train there are law enforcement clients not to use the software or who are making decisions but rather to narrow down the pool to where the shoeman can look at the final results and verify yes these do make sense the same people or they're not the same people amazon is saying well we think it's quite helpful we can find lost children and we can find criminals and things and that's all very positive but then the a.c.l.u. is saying yes but you also may use that as a way to sweep up people there's a possibility of abuse of the technology and there's also the use of it for go

it is human we do know what a computer dollars is though the measures points are back in may the a.c.l.u. did reveal that amazon is trying to sell its facial recognition technology to government and police agencies and that led him a civil liberties groups to join together to campaign against it in fact even amazon workers join the protest however the technology is already being tested by some u.s. police departments but next of course comedy as kate says a good expect is public safety kemas owners are already working with government agencies to deploy this technology at the a.c.l.u. we obtain records that show that amazon signed a secrecy agreement with one county to keep details about the technology out of public view they've also invited law enforcement to suggest new features and they are heard free consulting to help the city of orlando build its own system however amazon has hit back at the a.c.l.u. test saying that it had to use lower accuracy settings than it recommended. well eighty percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of chairs animals or other social media

in may the a.c.l.u. revealed that amazon is trying to sell its facial recognition technology to government and police agencies and that led to more than a forty several liberties groups to join together in calling for that not to happen even amazon workers joined the protest however the technology has already been tested in some us police departments. the next of course comedy as kate said you could expect is a public safety chemist on this are already working with government agencies to deploy this technology at the a.c.l.u. we obtain records that show that amazon signed a secrecy agreement with one county to keep details about the technology out of public view they've also invited law enforcement to suggest new features and they offered free consulting to help the city of orlando build its own system i was on has hit back of the a.c.l.u.'s test those saying that it should have employed a higher confidence threshold setting which measures the probability of an accurate match and as one recommends ninety

safety kemas owners are already working with government agencies to deploy this technology at the a.c.l.u. we obtain records that show that amazon signed a secrecy agreement with one county to keep details about the technology out of public view they've also invited law enforcement to suggest new features and they offered free consulting to help the city of orlando build its own system anderson though has hit back at the latest a.c.l.u. test saying it had lower accuracy settings than recommended. well eighty percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of hot dogs chairs animals or other social media use cases it wouldn't be appropriate for identify an individual us with a reasonable level of certainty when he is in facial recognition for law enforcement activities we got customers to set a threshold of at least ninety five percent or higher from amazon's point of view what they said was that the train there are law enforcement clients not actually use the software or who are making decisions but rather to narrow down the pool to where the shoeman can look at the final results

find lost children and we can find criminals and things and that's all very positive so then the a.c.l.u. is saying yes but you also may use that as a way to sweep up people there's a possibility of abuse of the technology and there's also the use of it for good. corporations like tesla and spotify has suffering huge losses in profits ultimately threatening the livelihoods of thousands of their employer has a dental bushell reports. wall street soaring around all time peak and driving that growth locomotive these guys who corporations like tesla spotify and dropbox are invested darlings committing even the general public who use their everyday products to buy in her role. as the leader in stream music i say some sometimes the most successful american tech company. just one tiny problem these firms are losing a rethink money tesla is worth more than car colossus is ford or general motors despite selling a tiny fraction of the cause and losing billions music streaming giant spotify is just announced vos lost is now the biggest startup in the world but it's lost money every year of its life

and the a.c.l.u. can tell the judge what it feels what punishment the judge should give the government for not complying with a deadline if it's found that they weren't acting in good faith so this is all very much in motion the judge says you better have sixty three reunited children by the end of tuesday the government saying it'll only manage thirty four on tuesday but they're saying look we're just doing it with the best interest of the child the judge has now said all saying you're not going about this in the correct way the process you're using to try and reunify these children is a process that was meant for unaccompanied children who come to the border and then a sponsor appears in the u.s. and says look i will take that child into my custody the judge says that's not the appropriate way of doing this now because this is back to front these a children who came with their parents and these parents simply want their children back so you don't have to go through all these lest you have to delay.

collaborated with the a.c.l.u.n issues of prison reform and limiting government surveillance activity. reporter, uished editor and columnist for "the washington post", ruth marcus with the newspaper for nearly 35 years. she graduated were harvard law school. she's currently deputy editorial page editor and for her weekly column has been for the pulitzer prize in commentary. editor and publisher. "the nation." she's written for just about major newspaper in the country and a frequent contributor on television news shows, for her work on behalf of civil liberties she has among ed awards from, others. the new york civil liberties union. the american anti-arab diswims community. and the anti-american arab fund.rimination katrina vanden heuvel. i want to welcome all three of them to the stage now. [ clapping ] [ ♪ ] >> yes, david, we are putting you in the middle. that's a comfortable for you. before we start we want to know about you and your news consumption. i'll ask some questions. all you have to do raise your hand

i am miriam the a.c.l.u. has released this video of actions reading out the account of a home during mother who was separated from an eighteen month old son the u.s. immigration officers then told me that they were taking my son from me both the a.c.l.u. and the courthouse except for the government's arguments that in some cases reunification is impossible some parents have a serious criminal history that could endanger the child for example however the judge has not accepted that the government has no responsibility to reunite children with parents who've been deported the government maintains deported parents want their children to remain in the u.s. but has provided new evidence to back up that claim the next deadline is july the twenty sixth the government has been ordered to reunite all children separated from parents by them in a conference call with the media the government said it was confident it would meet that deadline as quite efficiently as it had met his days deadline but of course the governmen

government and the a.c.l.u. into court for a status conference of j. and the u.s. government had no plan to reunify these families so he issued this executive order and then the judge asked what is the plan to bring these families together and they had no answer which is why the judge issued a sweeping nationwide preliminary injunction earlier this week forcing an ordering the federal government to you reunite these children with their parents. syrian rebels say peace talks with the government and its ally russia have ended in failure the free syrian army says they refused to surrender in the southern province of daraa it comes as a string of rebel held town villages that have accepted government rule following an intense bombardment campaign that's forced more than one hundred sixty thousand people to flee. her diane has more. celebration over syrian forces claiming control of rebel held town isn't daraa province syria's state media showed these images allegedly showing unwavering support. but on syria's border a desperate plea more than one hundred sixty thousand

at this point we're more or less completely iced out except for one figurative a.c.l.u. lawyer yelling forward. into the deep dark of. well the freedom of information act is very important as it is that one point stands for but i thought it's for funky orgies i've attended home or i which is nobody's business by the way and neither is access to public records how can you say that especially with the trumpet ministration working like fiends to censor or not provide seventy eight percent of all record requests well i mean i don't know anything about the job and ministry. i repressed all memories of it's like an orphan who witnessed his parents die in a fire. i highly recommend it. but i do know in many states government information sent through personally own devices is immune from public scrutiny so that's good no well listen i guess that means of state lawmakers e-mail back and forth on their own cell phones about policies about bills or anything government related we the people of can't ever see it well i mean what's what's the big deal i mean nobody ever sends work e-m

the a.c.l.u.asking that aderal judge to set a new deadline, august 1, for more information on the reunification, which would hold the government's feet to the fire. late this afternoon, the department of justice confirmed, jeff, that they will have reunified all eligible families by the end of the day. again, eligible being the key word here. >> glor: mireya villarreal on the story for us. yoreya, thank you. more than a dozen f.b.i. agents have now joined the search for a fssing university of iowa student. molly tibbetts disappeared last ent after she went for a jog in brooklyn, iowa, about 70 miles east of des moines. as adriana diaz reports, police hope the fitness tracker she was wearing can provide a break in the case. >> reporter: in brooklyn, iowa, molly tibbetts' face is everywhere but the 20-year-old is nowhere to be seen. er you never think you're going to see your-- see your sister on a poster with a "missing" sign right across her. t reporter: her brother jake was of the last to see tib

tuesday deadline it would have to specify reasons to the american civil liberties union by thursday the a.c.l.u. could then contest those reasons in court on friday with the possibility of a penalty being levied against the government if it was found to have acted in bad faith back in washington president trump seemed untroubled by the chaos has zero tolerance immigration policy is unleashed on legal asylum seekers and their children have a solution tell people not to come to our country illegally this was supposed to be the comparatively easy a deadline for the government to meet but it failed the next deadline is july twenty sixth all some three thousand migrant children over the age of four in u.s. custody are to be reunited with their parents by then she had. trumpet ministration wants the support of four latin american countries as it tries to reunite the migrant families u.s. homeland secretary it kirsten nielsen and that's the foreign ministers of guatemala mexico el salvador and honduras in guatemala city mexico's foreign minister criticized the u.s. and said the separations are cruel a

to their deportations of the challenges how will these people be found advocacy groups led by the a.c.l.u. of american civil liberties union appear to be the ones that are driving this effort now they are working with other groups in latin america as well as consulates to locate these deported parents and then there's also the other concern that some of these parents fleeing political prosecution persecution may not want to come out of the woodwork after they were deported back to the places where they felt that danger and then once they are found julie still it could take months to organize the law just sticks of finally putting parent and child back together. their lives for macallan and takes is hiding. now the number of people killed in monday's dam collapse in laos has risen to twenty seven with more than one hundred missing as water levels recede villages are questioning why they weren't moved to safety sooner florence luis sent more from stung trying province in neighboring cambodia. as water levels begin to recede people start to return to their homes to clean up to repair to salv

l.iz shakir is with the a.c.l.u. >> you have people fleeing ce pecution and violence put into military bases as if iney're osama bin laden or something. nt reporter: adrian winter told us he was heartened to see americans speaking up. >> our country motto is "e pluribus unum," you know. "out of many, one." so, we are here as individuals, but, altogether, we're one country, we're one movement. >> reporter: as all of these marchers cross the brooklyn bridge, off in the distance you can make out the statue of liberty, a symbol of american freedom; and also, ellis island, epe first stop for millions of immigrants who built this country. syena? ionsinan: kenneth craig, thank you kenneth. another part of the anti- immigration marches is to abolish ice. it's a growing call from democrats to get rid of the agency that arrests and removes illegal immigrants in the u.s. paula reid has that part of the story. >> no more ice! no more ice! >> reporter: early this morning, before the demonstrations got under way, president trump tweeted his support for immigration and customs d forcement, writing: "

government and the a.c.l.u. into court for a status conference update and the u.s. government had no plan to reunify these families so he issued this executive order and then the judge asked what is the plan to bring these families together and they had no answer which is why the judge issued a sweeping nationwide preliminary injunction earlier this week forcing and ordering the federal government to you reunite these children with their parents well thank you for your perspective appreciate it laura priorly director of immigration policy and campaigns at the american civil liberties union thank you for your time today thank you. well now we go to thailand where divers and managed to go several kilometers into a flooded cave looking for twelve young footballers and their coach have been missing for a week a new opening to the underground complex was discovered on friday offering hope the boys might still be found alive a scot hider reports from chiang rai relatives remain positive despite many questions and few on says. one. week after the boys in their coats passed

a.c.l.u. attorney lee gelernt is suing the government on behalf of the migrant families. >> the government is planning on reuniting at most 59 of the 102 kids they've identified who are under five years old. >> reporter: the u.s. department of health and human services says more than 40 kids will remain in their custody past the deadline. their reason... the parents have been deported and haven't been found. 12 parents are facing criminal charges. nine others have been released into the country, but the government has lost track of them. still, h.h.s. says they are carefully vetting parents to protect child safety. the government is also facing a july 26th deadline for the rest the nearly 3,000 separated minors. >> ( translated ): i'm very worried about her. because i know that she's suffering. >> reporter: mario is one of those parents. he hasn't seen his daughter in nearly a month after they crossed the border illegally. criminal charges were dropped against him, but his daughter remains in

detention they are limited there to fewer than twenty days because of a court settlement which is why the a.c.l.u. the civil liberties union is trying to ask a judge to delay their deportation by at least seven days so that their families may decide what to do next heidi thanks very much indeed. a team of italian scientists says they've discovered a huge underground lake on mars lies beneath the southern ice cap it's the first time a large stable body of liquid water has been discovered on the red planet and in baba reports a stunning discovery is what they're calling it one that could help scientists know for sure whether life ever formed on mars or even exists today the study led by italian researches says they found what could be an underground lake it's a large body of liquid water twenty kilometers wide and one point five kilometers below the surface and it was found using radar instruments on board the european space agency's orbiter mars express scientists looked at radar readings from the planet's southern ice cap which provided ideal conditions ice is a very thin aspirant medium expressi

now, in a court filing this week, lawyers with a.c.l.u.t some parents were misled by the government and never meant to leave their children in the u.s., but the director of ice told our own shannon bream for at least some of the parents, leaving their kids here was likely part of the goal all along. >> some of these people had left the united states without their children chose to leave the united states without their children because they basically got what they wanted, got the child to the united states, live with relatives, get the education and be the next daca applicants in the next ten years. >> democrats are attempting to slam the trump administration over the process and a.c.l.u. tweeted some 463 parents were report without their children and the government isn't trying to reunite them. we will not back down, donald trump. you are responsible for fixing the crisis you made. on friday, democratic senator bob menendez said the nightmare is not over. the administration could not meet yesterday's deadline not when 463 parents have been

tuesday deadline it would have to specify reasons to the american civil liberties union by thursday the a.c.l.u. could then contest those reasons in court on friday with the possibility of a penalty being levied against the government if it was found to have acted in bad faith back in washington president trump seemed untroubled by the chaos has zero tolerance immigration policy is unleashed on legal asylum seekers and their children have a solution tell people not to come to our country illegally this was supposed to be the comparatively easy a deadline for the government to meet but it failed the next deadline is july twenty sixth all some three thousand migrant children over the age of four in u.s. custody are to be reunited with their parents by then she. susan pi is an immigration attorney she's joining us now on skype from jacksonville in florida thank you very much and did for giving us your time on al-jazeera in your opinion do you think that there is any truth in the suggestion that the government is using delaying tactics in this process i don't think they're bullish and only using de

a.c.l.u. officials welcomed today's move. >> what the judge said is that they should continue with reunifications even if the parent has a removal order, and this way the parent and the child will have some time to talk over whether the child eiould stay in the country to fight immigration case still. >> woodruff: the trump administration opposed the ruling. it is under a court-ordered eradline to reunite more than 2500 ohildren with their parents by july 26th. migrants are still arriving in europe by the hundreds, from africa. about 450 were allowed to disembark in sicily today, after six european union nations agreed to take them in. italy had refused to l ships dock over the weekend. elsewhere, spanish crews rescued nearly 480 migrants at sea over 1e weekend. ne7,000 have made it to spain th year. one of the european union's top leaders appealed to the u.s., russia and china today to preserve world order, by preventing trade war european council president donald tusk spoke at a summit with

tuesday deadline it would have to specify reasons to the american civil liberties union by thursday the a.c.l.u. could then contest those reasons in court on friday with the possibility of a penalty being levied against the government if it was found to have acted in bad faith back in washington president trump seemed untroubled by the chaos his zero tolerance immigration policy has unleashed on legal asylum seekers and their children have a solution tell people not to come to our country illegally this was supposed to be the comparatively easy a deadline for the government to meet but it failed the next deadline is july twenty sixth all some three thousand migrant children over the age of four in u.s. custody to be reunited with their parents by then she had. the jungle ministration once the supporter for latin american countries as it tries to reunite the migrant families u.s. homeland security secretary kirsten nielsen met the foreign ministers of guatemala mexico el salvador and honduras and guatemala city mexico's foreign minister has criticized the u.s. and said the separations are cruel

the a.c.l.u. brought the lawsuit in san diego prompting this reunification push. lee lernt is the deputy director of its immigrants' rights project and was in court today. for the record, we invited two key departments, homeland security and health and human services, to appear tonight.in outation was declined. lee gelernt, thank you so much for being with us tonight. i want to ask you now, today ish obviousl deadline for kids under five to be reunited, which we know has been missed. we're speaking 6:30 eastern, 3:30 your time on the coast, how many children in that group under age five have been united as onow? >> we're still waiting for an up-to-the-minute tally. the government today walked into court and promid only 38 would be reunited by the end of the day. that did not sit well with the judge. said, i want all 65 -- 63 families who are eligible for reunification to be reunited by the endf the day and if the government cannot, he wants an explanation in writing on thursday, wants to see us back in court friday and asks us what we leaf do we want from him ife

these children aren't being reunited with their parents that will be fought in court on friday the a.c.l.u. the american civil liberties union will go through that list and if the government is found not to have acted in good faith penalties will be coming. share a chance with an update on the border immigration situation in the us thank you flip it a little bit and think about what we know about the countries where many of these people have come from the fled from our friends and i j plus have this look at why so many are taking refuge seeking refuge in the us. unless you know the history of central america then don't comment condemn the parents who are sending their children here and. they don't talk about why you're pushed to come here why we feel the need to take on that huge risk because coming here is deadly you face a risk of rape of getting trafficked of going missing of dying on your journey a lot of the reporting that is coming out about the issue fails to acknowledge the fact that the children involved are primarily central america when we talk about keeping families together we

different coalitions, we've worked with the naacp we work with the center for american progress, a.c.l.u., you name it. the heritage foundation, whoever wants to help here. that's led to this commonalty coming out in the last 10, 15 years and the states have shown you can reduce incarceration rates, reduce recitivism rates and reduce spending and we're not spending now more money like we do in a lot of states where we have over the past several years. we spent three to four times more per capita on locking people up than educating them on k-through 12 education. that's starting to shift. your other question, how did we come to this, how did koch get to it or involved, it's back to the fundamental liberty and common sense. from my perspective, i grew up in worcester, massachusetts, the best job i had before i went to law school, i was a prison guard. and kids i grew up with were in incarcerated, classmates in junior high and high school and they were knuckleheads and they did really numb things and ended up becoming drug addicts and the same thing happening again and again and they got lo

in may the a.c.l.u. revealed amazon is trying to sell its facial recognition technology to government and police agencies that let numerous civil liberties groups to join together to campaign against it even amazon workers join the protests but the technology is already being tested by some u.s. police department. but next of course comedy as kate says you could expect is a public safety commission is already working with government agencies to deploy this technology at the a.c.l.u. we obtain records that show that amazon signed a secrecy agreement with one county to keep details about the technology out of public view they've also invited law enforcement to suggest new features and they offered free consulting to help the city of orlando build its own system and was honest hit back at the a.c.l.u. test though saying that it uses lower accuracy settings than recommended while eighty percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of hot dogs chairs animals or other social media use cases it woul