look at the numbers coming up and it's thursday so it's time for our techno ports in memory of aaron swartz a new bill is introduced to protect consumers by microsoft is offering a big payout to hackers for finding security flaws all of that and much more later in today's show. it's thursday june twentieth five pm in washington d.c. i'm maggie lopez and you are watching r.t. well more information is coming out from the guardian today detailing the types of information the n.s.a. can and has collected in the past when it comes to american citizens here's what we found out while the prism nucleon and mainway programs are mostly used to collect information on foreign entities and not american citizens u.s. communications can still be collected retained and used for five years if it contains useable intelligence information on criminal activity threat of harm to people or property if it's encrypted or if it is believed to contain any information relevant to cyber security model as for the matter of transparency both past and present n.s.a. officials argue that the process is as transparent as p

plead guilty to the charge because he was facing thirty five years i mean look what happened to aaron swartz even we've the famous hacker i mean it's just you just see the double standards right in your face if you right aaron swartz you know just to fill it in there and give some context you know how did it death by the m.p.a. watching him surveilling him watching his family recording everything he did face hundred forty years of gulag american girl at forty five to life and kill themselves releasing books and documents from colleges and making them public so that people could benefit off them so you see this total hypocrisy of people who release information and free information and provided to everybody those are the people who are going to go to jail the people who are actually doing the illegal actions helping mass murderers helping drug cartels if you have enough money you'll be fired you will be good and those people were sent are walking free today which is which just shows you the double standards of the crony capitalism system about well i don't know if you know william bonzai seven

and they're not activist aaron swartz who died in january will be posthumously inducted into the internet hall of fame swartz died in the u.s. government's aggressive pursuit of legal charges against him for allegedly stealing thousands of academic documents from the j. storage database which he said he planned to provide to the general public free of charge he faced thirty five years in prison under the computer fraud and abuse at. well swartz committed suicide in january of this year and after his death prosecutors dismissed all charges he was a major force in this awning rabbit and the r.s.s. feed he was also instrumental in the internet freedom movement including campaigns to prevent the passage of the stop online privacy act and protect the ip act aaron swartz is one of thirty two to be awarded this prize of this year that doesn't for now you can follow me at twitter on twitter m underscore j underscore how will all see what a. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of

area see in cyber crime and we've seen this with bradley manning on the domestic scene else as aaron swartz so i don't think that they'll give up pursuing him. but whether or not they were ultimately successful in that only time will tell all right international ations expert dara made al thanks very much for your insight thank you for having me or you can have more updates on edward snowden the search for asylum in a couple of minutes stay with us here on r.t. . i know they tracked the approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did though they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice like gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent amongst independents and even his in three rival democratic voters have given him fourteen percentage points of popularity i think this may be due to the fact that obama's magic has worn off and people are getting fed up with things along for the bush days is insane if you are one of the people who has r

in the areas in cyber crime we've seen this with bradley manning on the domestic scene elsa's aaron swartz so i don't think that they'll give up pursuing him. but whether or not they were ultimately successful and that only time will tell all right international ations expert dara mcdowell thanks very much for your insight thank you for having me or you have more updates on edward snowden the search for asylum in a couple of minutes stay with us here on r.t. . i know they tracked the approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did though they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice like gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving off.

look at the numbers coming up and it's thursday so it's time for our techno ports in memory of aaron swartz a new bill is introduced to protect consumers by microsoft is offering a big payout to hackers for finding security flaws all of that and much more later in today's show.