to explain why i was joined earlier by kurt upsala he's a senior staff attorney at the electronic frontier foundation he started off by explaining why these letters are so controversial these letters are somewhat unprecedented in the american system because they allow for a demand of information from a telecommunications provider without a warrant without a court being involved and are you how response she didn't know this unconstitutional but do you think that it actually went far enough well absolutely if the court found that they were unconstitutional and so the f.b.i. can the issue of the letters in this case our case and in any other case so it's finding that the statute itself violates the constitution so tell me a little bit more about your client's case out of this. well i mean we as i think everybody expects the government will appeal so we'll take this up to the next level the ninth circuit court of appeal and then perhaps to the supreme court and get the court to say finally whether this type of letter is constitutional we believe that it is not in the court will agree now the judge's deci

of americans and things we would normally reject. >> michael: you know, going to the electronic frontier foundationhed the drone authorization list. it's shocking. right now 81 entities in the u.s. has drones. several universities, police departments, departments of energy and homeland security. how concerned should citizens be about this? >> absolutely. this is a great cause for concern. if citizens don't speak up, then these agency also continue to develop these policies. they need to hear that americans aren't going to take that without a real debate. that's what we've started to see, in over 30 states we've seen legislation designed to regulate the use of drones introduced. >> and in terms of consumer availability they say by 2015 drones will be available for commercial use and analysts believe there will be upwards of 30,000 drones in the country. 30,000. that to me poses i think of homeland security right away. i don't think about somebody carrying a pair of scissors on an airplane, i think of this. how big of a concern is this? >> unless we take action now. >> what kind of action should we t

participants got not a single word of summary in their own minutes including the aclu and the electronic frontier foundation which was opposed to the implementation of rfid. and the public was given five words or less in some cases of sentence fragments to summarize what they said. in my case, peter war field, process used to consider rfid. that was the entire entry for what i had spent three minutes discussing march 4, 2004. i think that mr. herrera's history starts right from the very beginning of this tenure as city librarian, when he set up a so-called technology and privacy advisory committee to look into the question of rfid, the advisebility of rfid installation which people thought was intended to justify it. there, there was initially, no inclusion at all of public comment in the committees meetings it was not strictly required by sunshine. eventually, the public got to comment last. if you look on the website there are no minutes of those meetings as the agendas were published and when the report was finally published, it was arranged that the final report had no mention whatsoever anywhere includ

is a poem is called a crime but you have sort of a huge legion of supporters now the electronic frontier foundation that you have that is actually taking out his appeal to show just how significant this case is and how much of a stretch it might be as far as what the d.j. is actually doing but to back up what our own home or actually did was back in two thousand and ten when the i pads came out and every upper middle class white person america ran out to the apple store to go buy one eight hundred eighty and apple didn't really know what the hell they were doing so he found out that there was a security flaw to use websites and what he found out was pretty much information about every single i pad when i say information i mean the e-mail address registered that i pad and nothing else no names no passwords no home addresses no phone numbers no security numbers none of that are never found out that the e-mail addresses of everybody had user was sitting unprotected on the internet not behind the password not behind a firewall wasn't encrypted or anything he found them and he let people know he went on

the electronic frontier foundation and the competitive enterprise institute so will the g.p.s. act sail through congress and give americans a major win in the fight for privacy rights joining me now is ryan ridea associate director of technology studies with the competitive enterprise institute a conservative competitive enterprise institute ron welcome to the program good to be here. your conservative on a liberal we both agree on this legislation out of that happens i think it's a coming realization that's happened over the last several years by folks on the right that have a law enforcement place that's a great rule to be able to access our private information like where we've been for the last several months we are we are right now we're going is a problem it seems that it may have taken the obama administration to wake conservatives up to the notion that law enforcement sometimes can go too far that's why we're seeing this bipartisan push to reform and limit the ability of the government to warrantless leak get the information about where you've been from your cell phone c

time for them to have time to ask for an appeal the electronic frontier foundation is celebrating this issue the foundation is currently representing a tele community. nation company that's fighting in in a cell letter that actually received back in two thousand and eleven for more on this story go to our web site r t dot com slash usa. well things are warming up in washington d.c. and i'm not just talking about the weather it's sunshine week and for many journalists that means a chance to have a dialogue about the importance of government and freedom of information throughout the week numerous events have taken place in our team has been there to convert them one of the major advocates for the open government is in a say whistleblower thomas drake hailed a luncheon today to talk about how important the free flow of information is to a democratic society are to correspondent liz wahl is there and brings us the latest it seems that secrecy is actually strengthening the national security. in order to hide from accountability and oversight he's a former national security agency executive

the case was brought bit electronic frontier foundation. >> defamation suit against san francisco sheriffishing recommend and his wife dismissed tonight. lawsuit filed by ivory madison and her husband who are mirkarimi next door neighbors. they say mirkarimi and his wife lopez falsely accused them of crimes misconduct during the sheriffs domestic violence case last year. that case began when madison gave police videotape of lopez crying and showing bruise that is she described as being caused by mirkarimi in a new years eve fight. >> san jose is rampping up the police force. 43 new recut graduated today from the police academy. and while city officials celebrate the first graduate in 4 years, police union says that number is in the high enough. the story tonight from 7 news reporter thomas ramone. >>reporter: 43 brand new san jose police officers marched into the graduating ceremony at park side hall. here they get the brand new badges and be sworn in. this is the first police academy class since 200 2009. san jose rest didn't says it's about time more officers hit the streets. >> we are

there's a new map that comes out almost two months after the electronic frontier foundation revealed another one, this time of public agencies including police departments and universities that have a permit issued by the federal aviation agency to use drones in american airspace. it goes to show you how entrenched drones already are said trevor tim, an e.f.f. activist, when asked about the new map. it's clear that the drone industry is expanding rapidly and this map is just another example of that. if people are worried about military technology coming back and being sold in the u.s., this is another example of how drone technology is probably going to proliferate in the u.s. very soon. this is another article from february of 2013. this was in "wired." it's called domestic drone industry prepares for big battle with regulators. for a day, a sandy haired virginan was the hero of a nascent domestic drone industry. navarro went to a ballroom in a ritz carleton outside d.c. and did something many in his business want to do. tenaciously challenge the drone regulators at the f.a.a. to lo

frontier foundation and before that was chief counsel for the aclu. there's a lot of privacy issues and property issues including the electronic communications act of 1986. to his right as the executive or a public knowledge on intellectual property issues and internet freedom issues for many years. to her right is jules polonetsky, cochair of the future of privacy forum. jules before that was with aol as their chief privacy officer and has a long history of working on privacy related issues. so with that said, i would like to hand it off to jill lesser. idea mark >> okay, now it's on. i don't work for a technology organization so i have no idea how technology works. hello, everyone and thanks for having us. when tim and i talked about doing a briefing like this, we did not know was going to be coincident with our implementation. so we're actually arriving in front of you in real time, just on the heels of the culmination of 18 months of work in the implementation phase of the copyright of their system before that, several colleagues were involved in a multiyear negotiation. as many of you know, these issues have historically not let themselves to volun