none that i more like them privacy no author i have been more excited to meet in person they and julia angwin. we are fellow soldiers we have both written about privacy and there is no reporter in america that has done more than julia. your path breaking reports in their small street journal and elsewhere about the harm of the online tracking and the details about how much precisely it is a finalist because of the incredible "wall street journal" that people are charged different prices based on the profile of the logarithms without our knowledge or consent. some of the other great achievements she is a journalist and a reporter at "the wall street journal" 2000 through 2013 and a finalist for the pulitzer prize in 2011. on a team of reporters that won the pulitzer in 2003 for corporate corruption and also oat roche stealing my space i am so thrilled to have her here with her latest book "dragnet nation" a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance" please welcome the julia angwin. [applause] we have so much to discuss what surprised you most of how alleged

data julia angwin. where fellow soldiers in the trenches for many years. we both written about privacy and there's no reporter in america for whom i know more than julia. your pathbreaking port about the tangible harms of online tracking and especially the details about how much precisely is being collected and what is being done with it. yuri seidel as for the pulitzer prize twice about because of your incredible "wall street journal" series on the subject, which reveals for the first time something many of us had no, which is people are actually charge different prices online based on the profile basic algorithms without our knowledge . some of the other many great achievement, she is currently at your boss at the wonderful independent news organization. report of "the wall street journal" from 2000 to 2013 and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in 2011. she was on a team of reporters the one the pulitzer in 2003 in explanatory reporting for corruption. also the oster stealing my space, the battle to control the most popular website in america. i'm so

please join me in thanking julia angwin. [applause] >> the health health care program in the united states is not going to go anywhere in the sense that if we do not deal with the issue of innovation, if we do not translate all those findings that occur at the university level related to health care products which have affordable and treat disease and cheers them and as long as we do not understand their causes and how to treat or cure them there is no point really and talking about the solution of the health care problem. because health insurance coverage is going to provide health insurance but then when it comes to drugs, when it comes to the premiums, when it comes to subsidies where are the subsidies going to come from from taxpayers money. it's not that people are just going to get the dollars out of the trees. no, people have to pay for that and the economy is basically the science of limitations. so if we don't deal with it with a better system of working on understanding how we should take care of our own health the

. >> julia angwin talks about the way that government private businessebusinesse s and criminals collecttheir private data. due to the pervasiveness of the dragnet system we live in today. this is just under an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen walk him to the national constitution center. it's such a pleasure to see you here. i am jeffrey rosen the president of this wonderful institution. the national constitution center is the only institution in america charted by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis and as part of this wonderful mandate we have three goals with the museum of we the people and not covert displaying a rare copy of the bill of rights. we are center for civic education in america's town hall the one place that summons all sides of the constitutional debates that rapid american society and allow citizens to make up their own minds. in the past weeks in the coming months we have had such a remarkable and exciting variety of town hall programs. just last week we had a debate between alan dershowitz and others about whether the p

and we're joined by julia angwin , pulitzer prize winning best to get of journalists.e is a new book out called, "dragnet nation: a quest for privacy, security and freedom in a wolrd of relentless surveillance." there's a lot to take on right now. ray mcgovern, let's begin with you. explain what this conflict is about. two things, the cia, how did they spy on the senate intelligence staffers and what was the report that the senate diligence committee is trying to put out? >> this goes back to the key question of supervising the intelligence community. in the 1970's, it was the church committee looking into abuses of all kinds, illegal wiretapping, assassinations, and that kind of thing. it was recognized you need congressional oversight. that meant congressional oversight, not congressional overlook, which is what we have had the past couple of years. if you fast-forward, 9/11, people always say after 9/11, everything changed. well, it did change. after 9/11, the president actually on the evening of 9/11 said, i don't what -- don't care what the international lawyers s

julia angwi julia angwin will talk to us about her expenses. she is the author of "dragnet nation."ill have those segments coming up as "washington journal " continues. ♪ say most oft to health policy really is not help policy at all -- it is andntially budget policy, just docs on so many of the big issues and ends up putting together something that in the parlance of washington might be called a patch. maybe it is an extension, maybe it is called a stopgap, but the fact is, it ducks the big issues. they repeatedly ducks the big issue. particularly on medicare when you have 10,000 people eligible for medicare everyday, there is a very real cost attached with that. so now the challenge is to try to find a way to move beyond this fixation on budgeting. it would be one thing if it was found budget policy, but so indicated, we do not get the structural kinds of issues, and move beyond this sort of lurching from one kind of budget calamity to another and come up with some sensible budget policy. >> this weekend on c-span, senate finance committee chair ron wyden on the challenges facing

[laughter] please join be to think julia angwin. [applause] >> thank you linda and all of you for o [applause] >> think you for coming it is a very gratifying. with a couple of purgatory comments, full disclosure disclosure, spending three decades to do everything . secret. festival talk. i have done speaking before the lawyers association, conferences and schools but this is my first festival appearance, so this is a new and exciting experience for me. but it's also a new experience for me albeit somewhat intimidating this is my first talk in a church. [laughter] the idea of an older cia guy talking about spy stuff i will try to stay focused but thank you all. i'm not going to speak any longer than 30 minutes. and i may not speak that long because one of the things i have enjoyed about the public appearances is honestly not listening to myself talk because god knows after five weeks of either two or you have heard me say everything for about 25 times already. but what i enjoy is the feedback from the audience. i was telling linda r

please join me in thanking julia angwin. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> first of all born in 1874 in iowa as the son of quakers and son of a blacksmith and he was orphaned before he was 10. what not to that eventually would oakwood oregon. never had more than a middle-school education really been applied for entrance into newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891 and got admission and was told to take some additional tutoring with the help of which he passed muster his entrance exams and was allowed to enter. who is probably literally the first at stanford university in the fall of 91, gaining his dormitory room ahead of anyone else. that became, in a deep sense, his alma mater. you have to remember he is an orphan boy and was trying to make it in the world. he was only 17 when he entered college and he was rather shy, but he blossomed in college and became a student body treasurer by the time he was out of college. stanford meant so much to him that about 25 years or so after that, after world war i, h