and scrape this information and by the way twitter and facebook for their part of said that that clearview ai has actually violated their policies by by conducting this scraping so they're saying they weren't working with them but there is a bigger point here and that is the issue of the fact that we do have in this country a private sector apparatus that is conducting surveillance that is creating facial recognition that is monitoring the public and it is utilizing that technology to sell it back to law enforcement as a means of turning a profit law enforcement is getting around the 4th amendment by said julie taking part in this and saying well we're not the ones collecting the photos we don't have to have a warrant just to pay to use somebody's service that is incredibly concerning are around and there really aren't a lot of people talking about this right now i mean this comes up specifically because of this legislation but it sounds like it's a much bigger problem now more again what is interesting here is that police departments actually purchased access to this information as a way of

tell me about clearview ai. w have they been where the biggest perpetrators of these near criminal exchanges? >> first of all what we do in our bill as we ban the government from doing business with clearview. because clearview basically use these personal photos that people have in a way that completely violates the consumers reasonable expectation. this is a comprehensive bill this is a bill that really goes after the digital surveillance state. i think is going to make a huge difference. it really blows the whistle on these shady data brokers are basically unregulated. >> what they are doing is they scrub social media sites. they have technology that goes and grabs everyone's pictures and already they are associated with names. they have amassed something like 3 billion photographs. and they sell it to the government. so how can the government use that in a violating way that compromises people's rights? >> as i say it is a loophole in federal law. but we are blowing the whistle on these government agencies. p