washington we have myron ebel he is the director of energy and global warming policy at the competitive enterprise institute and in paris we go to bruno combi he is president of environmentalists for nuclear energy and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right gentlemen this is cross talk please feel free to jump anytime you want we have three panelists and you guys have very different points of view so please feel free to jump in here myron if i can go to you first in washington in making investment decisions about energy for the future for the western world and leave us specifically in your case what is the best form of energy that we should be putting our money on getting a return on and getting energy security and looking at the environment as well what's the best sector. there are two paths to investment today in the united states and the west in general one is making market decisions making the best investment based on market conditions what's the most affordable and accessible type of energy and then we have decisions made on what gets the biggest government mandated subsidy my vie

and randy associate director of technology studies at the competitive enterprise institute brian thanks for being here but let's first start you know with why law enforcement considers this a problem i mean in the meantime every i.s.p. has their own policy right some keep this content for days some might keep it for months there's no formal rule that's correct right now internet providers vary dramatically in terms of how long they retain this data but by and large the data is retained for a period of several months law enforcement does use it from time to time not all providers do retain this data however which is what the law enforcement has urged congress to revisit now why would a nice piece want to retain this data to begin and i've heard a lot about that is just actually just too expensive to keep it forever it is actually quite expensive especially for smaller providers remember the amount of data we're talking about here is things like what internet protocol address is affiliated with which customer also devolves into which websites you visit take that for every customer time si

safe or earlier i caught up with brian associate director of technology studies at the competitive enterprise institute and first we painted the scenario let's say i got pulled over i got arrested i had my phone on the cops really just do whatever they want with it . that's correct under the decision two weeks ago by the california supreme court along with actually a number of other courts over the last few years any time you were arrested by police for any reason which could include the parking tickets driver got a seatbelt for reckless driving the police could take your phone arrest you and once you're in custody under arrest behind bars they can spend hours trying to search your phone anything they find can be used to get to a court to be used for a search warrant and that's that's really scary because when you think about it this little tiny thing that i carry around atlanta has it holds so much of our personal information these days right every e-mail every text message every picture every video it's almost kind of scary how much we depend on these little things it's incredible how much data we st