you will age and use it with little oversight and then as you said the electronic frontier foundation in san francisco based of the liberties group came out with their own all your documents as saying that it's been used to eavesdrop on young trooper in europe and if that happens you are supposed to go through a wiretap and subject to go in days because if you can show they also want very you know when you look through the electronic frontier foundation the documents that they did receive they said that they are all heavily redacted so you know to me the natural assumption is that there are other things there that they're trying to hide . and so it certainly makes sense to me isn't it difficult to guess what's going on but you generally only find out about these abuses years all either when you have a whistleblower or when you have an inspector general report go in or when you. get really lucky with freedom of information act request and so it is difficult to know it's going on because there are these new things we classify her secret and governments don't like to reveal embarrassing

director claims that he doesn't know of any violations oh thankfully we have the electronic frontier foundation that just announced yesterday one example of many it's discovered of the f.b.i. monitoring young children despite the fact that their voices didn't match the target violations so it was all hope for our civil liberties lost when officials start spreading lies to get their way joining me to discuss it is declan mccullagh correspondent at c. net news dot com thanks so much for joining us tonight first starters robert mueller thinks that we should make all three of these provisions permanent i say that it's crazy what do you think. well i mean this is what happened is the senator grassley who's kind of you're wrong or conservative so what you can do now is a softball question a director mueller any problems that he's not a problem that's actually your service was the response so. this is like the first night of the make these permanent some little bit of a tea party revolt they were due to expire it's twenty seven feet instead you got a temporary extension until the end of may as you sai

families and so on all of that is being a put at risk through the copyright wars today the electronic frontier foundation released its amicus brief in the latest iteration of viacom's lawsuit against you tube and viacom has said that you tube should have an obligation to examine every file that's uploaded to it to make sure it doesn't violate viacom's copyrights and you tube at present at least twenty nine hours of video a minute uploaded to it there aren't enough lawyers in the universe to examine all the video and so what viacom is really saying is that you tube shouldn't accept video from all comers they should somehow narrow down what video they accept in order to ensure that the volume is low enough that they can inspect it all and keep viacom's copyrighted material off the network but you know any bar that you create to posting video on youtube isn't going to just hit pirates it's going to hit you know people in tunisia and egypt who want to upload examples of corruption and start a revolution all right so the copyright issue has morphed from a licensing issue to an issue of spring free speech and