that is something that we should work towards for personal data. we need the european cloud. if european data is to be stored in the cloud it should he held in europe. then we can guarantee to our companies and citizens that the state is being stored and secured according to european standards. we need the modern e.u. data protection legislation. we cannot call our u.s. friends to order if we do not have the highest most modern standards implemented here in europe. there are developments that i have concerns about that regards the quantity of data being stored. we need to look at the technology to analyze this data where progress is made. we must be brave enough to set clear limits and standards along the lines of what the commission is proposed. on the ninth of july we will be voting in the committee. we cannot leave ourselves open to blame. we cannot hesitate. i will call on the council to stop focusing on the minor points of detail and relook at the major challenges being faced today and come up with the results. finally it's important for the epp today that we reiterate th

that is something we should work towards, a framework agreement for personal data. ointed the to european cardiff european data is stored in the cloud, it should be in europe and we can guarantee to our companies and citizens at this data is stored and secured according to european standards. we need the modern e.u. data protection legislation. we cannot call to order if we do not have the highest, most modern standards here in europe. there are developments i have concerns about as records of the quantity of data being stored it for me to look at technology to analyze the data where progress is made. we must be brave enough to set clear limits and standards along the lines of what the commission has proposed it on the ninth of july were voting in the committee. we cannot leave ourselves open to blame. we cannot hesitate. i would call on the council to stop focusing on minor points of detailed look at the major challenges faced today come up with results. finally, it is for the epp to date that we reiterate the u.s. as our partner. we were not in a position to build

that is something that we should work towards for personal data. we need the european cloud. if european data is to be stored in the cloud it should he held in europe. then we can guarantee to our companies and citizens that the state is being stored and secured according to european standards. we need the modern e.u. data protection legislation. we cannot call our u.s. friends to order if we do not have the highest most modern standards implemented here in europe. there are developments that i have concerns about that regards the quantity of data being stored. we need to look at the technology to analyze this data where progress is made. we must be brave enough to set clear limits and standards along the lines of what the commission is proposed. on the ninth of july we will be voting in the committee. we cannot leave ourselves open to blame. we cannot hesitate. i will call on the council to stop focusing on the minor points of detail and relook at the major challenges being faced today and come up with the results. finally it's important for the epp today that we reiterate th

. >> as can you see here, the marriage license application calls for first-person data and second person data and both can choose bride or groom. >>> turning to bay area weather, we told you at 7:00 it was going to heat up and we were right. >> that's right, gasia. >> the temperatures are zooming up, just the beginning of a major heat up. >> as far as today, not a -- no extreme heat, but noticeable amount to those numbers 86 to 87 degrees. >> some thick fog near parts of the shore shine that kept san francisco into the 70s. >> right now, mostly clear skies, expect some patchy fog developing near parts of the coastline. that fog will be a factor for the overnight hours. >> still lots of sunshine as you work your way inland and temperatures updated for the 7:00 hour ranging from the 60s in half moon bay to 71 in oakland, still holding on to 80s fairfield, antioch and livermore at last check. >> first thing tomorrow morning, pockets of fog right around the bay could be dense, especially driving highway 1 first thing for tomorrow morning. >> and your headlines will go with this, at least par

and second person data and both can choose bride or groom. >> this was the scene outside the u.s. supreme court where the justices issued their ruling on prop 8. that wasn't the only key decision they released. the supreme court struck down a decision to doma which denied benefits to married same-sex couples. michael harbor is ready to marry his long-time partner. he says the supreme court decision will make financial planning a lot easier. >> there's over a thousand laws that are detrimental to gay couples that heterosexual couples don't even think about on a day-to-day basis. >> feinstein issued a statement to repeal the rest of the restrictions. >>> when the clouds will clear out and make room for sunshine and sizzling temperatures. >> how this project is turning a piece of the tragedy into art. >>> right after the break, bart workers take a step toward a strike. we break down how much the average bart employee earns and what they're demanding. >> give it to them so we can get to work on time. you kids should count yourselves lucky. we didn't have u-verse back in my day. you co

data. reports on the boom and the personal use of encrypted communications services. in a post prism world some are losing and others are gaining google of arisan facebook apple and other u.s. technology companies have lost credibility and the trust of their customers encrypted communications services on the other hand are seeing their businesses boom oh it's going crazy that. you know a lot of people suspected these. the government u.s. government was spying on americans but now we have this confirmation and so everybody is contacting us now when we've had a huge surge in orders phil zimmerman is the co-founder and c.e.o. of silent circle a global encrypted mobile service that protects users' privacy from the u.s. and national security agency and big data companies we have created an architecture that doesn't share the key cryptographic keys with the servers and servers that we control. so. if the government tries to persuade us to hand over something that we might have on our servers. we can't give them the keys and we can't give them the decrypted messages we don't

president barack obama defended his government's top secret program to gather personal data to counter terrorism. he said the agency acted in compliance with the law. the g-8 leaders are also discuss ing the restriction of the ability of multinational corporations to avoid paying taxes. the leaders will issue a joint declaration later in the day to wrap up the summit. yahoo is the latest company to announce it's received demands for user data. facebook, microsoft and apple have already revealed their figures. yahoo received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests between december of last year and may. the most common concern fraud, kidnappings and other criminal investigations. she says the company cannot disclose how many requests were related to intelligence matters because the information is classified. google executives have asked authorities to allow them to release more information on the surveillance program. they say their users want details. the former contractor for the national security agency disclosed nsa was collecting personal data from mayor telecom and i.t. companies. >>> p

is collecting and storing huge amounts of sensitive data personal data from online and telephone traffic and also sharing it with america peter tatchell who is a u.k. human rights activist says that u.s. surveillance tactics are outrageous and go beyond all legal boundaries and she will deny the states will be doubling its efforts to try and intercept him and to get an extradition from whatever country they can i think the context of this is that the united states spies on its own citizens it also spies almost a distance of millions of other countries i mean millions of people in other countries and this is done without the permission of those countries it is technically illegal and what is extraordinary is that what snowden was employed by the united states as a spy yet now they are seeking to arrest him for spying it seems completely not proceeding well in the united states is spying on its own citizens and citizens around the world on a massive scale without governmental into strict oversight within the united states or other countries around the world in another twist a whistleblower

and as whistleblowers such as snowden reveal government's appetite for personal data we're interested in how you feel about your private information being collected by security agencies on our website we've asked for your opinions let's take a look at what you've been saying so far here's how it all maps out this big huge block of the pie seventy four percent saying that spying on people is absolutely unacceptable private data without warning absolutely should not be done significantly less people in pink the sixteen percent say they have no opinion and they're not going to put it online because the government will track their answers and it can easily be tracked by security agencies this next group goal to seven percent say that it's justifiable if the government is looking for terrorists and that case they say it's fine but they just don't want mass tracking of everyone and then finally this tiny little sliver of green three percent say that there's absolutely nothing wrong with about with it and they've got nothing to worry about because they're not doing anything wrong anyway so t

government is facing presh allegations it's engaged in widespread mining of personal data to combat terrorism. the washington post under kated that the government has tapped into the servers of nine u.s. internet firms. it is based on a top secret document from the national security agency. it says the nsa and fbi are collecting data from microsoft, google, facebook, apple and other service providers. the newspaper says the agencies are extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails and other information uploaded by nonamericans. the post says the program goes by the code name prism and was launched in 2007. director of national intelligence james clapper said the article contains numerous inaccuracie inaccuracies. but he says information collected under the program is among the most valuable foreign intelligence they have obtained. facebook denied allowing any government direct access to their servers. apple says they've never heard of the program. >>> candidates in iran's presidential election have begun their last week of campaigning. citizens will choose from eight candidates when

personal identity code with the card. stolen or lost would theoretically be useless. businesses would buy card reader with government provided data the car actually belongs to the cardholder. your card year. businesses give one of these things. you put it in, put in your personal identity cut and it tells you whether or not you're in the country legally or whether the card is valid. there are questions about the system, especially when it comes to privacy and other the secured cards are actually national identification cards. the group pushing these cards says they're not. >> the social security card has been issued today since 1936. though we're talking about is adding security to a document that is already being used. you know, if they want to say we should not that security to that document, that seems to me like that is foolish. gerri: there are a handful of companies offering technology like this. advocates are pushing to get this technology attest to the immigration bill as a way to certify whether job applicants are in the country legally. this new system would require more than 300 million people to get the social securit

who helped design a top secret program he says broadly changed american personal data and he actually helped crack those codes and enter into this he is now a whistleblower mr benny thank you so much for joining me so first of all let's talk about the latest information that has come out from this n.s.a. spying on americans well first of all the the pfizer warrant that was issued to the f.b.i. to get data from verizon. that's that's been going on according to the paper anyway since not a two thousand and seven and this is like being renewed every three months so if you look at the top corner top right corner of that order it's thirteen dash eighty that means it's the eightieth order since in this year of two thousand and thirteen so when you start to say well what are the other seventy nine orders you can figure other companies and and this is like the second order of two thousand and thirteen for each company so you know that maximum you would divide eighty by two and maximum number of companies that could be involved in this kind of order would be forty. so but i'm sure that there a

is collecting and storing huge amounts of sensitive personal data from online and a telephone traffic and sharing it with america in another twist whistleblower russell tice who released his secret secrets during the george w. bush era says former cia head general petraeus and even barack obama were once targets for n.s.a. snooping he also confirmed that the data is indeed being stored james corbett a japan based independent journalist believes tice's revelations did not get the attention that they deserved. while the snowden drama unfolds something that's being swept under the rug are these new revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower russell tice who is in fact one of the people who is one of the sources for the original two thousand and five new york times story on the n.s.a. wiretapping scandal at that time but now russell tice to step forward with more information into explosive interviews from the last few days he talked about how the n.s.a. is in fact storing not just the metadata which has been a talking point in the newsroom so far but the content of all electronic communication

dublin now the man here in germany who's in charge of protecting german citizens identity and personal data is called the u.s. actions unacceptable saying that the level of protection that was in place to look after u.s. citizens well was really far greater than those to look after you citizens and well aren't we all allies after all the social democratic party here in germany who are the main opposition party have said that they want to hear from the german secret service to find out exactly just how much and when they knew that german citizens. we're being listened to during their phone conversations now all of this is caused outrage here in europe however at home in the united states well a poll by the washington post suggests that fifty six percent of americans currently think that this type of trolling for four wire taps is acceptable if it was to deter terrorists acts while forty six percent saying that it was unacceptable so a majority saying that this type of action should be allowed by the united states government despite the well despite the the unnerving that it does towards thei

and as whistleblowers such as snowden reveal government's appetite for personal data we're interested in how you feel about your private information being collected by security agent agencies on our website we've asked for your opinions and this is how it's turning out so far the overwhelming majority of you think that collecting private data is simply unacceptable and significantly less people are saying that they can't provide their answers online because they could be easily tracked by security forces. seven percent of you are sure snooping is justified only in cases of spying on terror suspects without the mass tracking of everyone and finally minority says people who have done nothing wrong should not be worried about the government getting access to their personal information so you can get involved and cast your vote at our teen dot com now peter tatchell who is a u.k. human rights activist says that u.s. surveillance tactics are outrageous and go beyond all legal boundaries. but she will deny the states will be doubling its efforts to try and intercept him and to get an extrad

but many more are told surprised by any of those revelations about the collecting of masses of personal data or to take part in this debate if you can and share your thoughts the address is facebook dot com forward slash r t news and also on our home page on our website r.t. dot com we have an online poll at the moment asking you what you think about what is happening and what the consequences are of this surveillance some we can see that seventy three percent a majority think that these methods are totally unacceptable just under twenty percent seventeen percent there so we don't really have an opinion and i'm more worried by the fact that we're being snooped anyway and that even responding to these answers on the website you're being tracked less than ten percent seven percent there think that they really are justified as long as it is targeted at catching at terrorists and a small amount of people feel that data collection is not a problem well if you've got nothing to hide why should it be that's what you say this hour log on to r.t. dot com tell us what you think. the friends of syria g

and the snowden leaks have shown governments have an insatiable appetite for personal data on our website we're asking what you think about personal information being collected by security agencies now this is a poll we've been running for several days now so this is kind of like a big final tally so far and overwhelming majority thinking spying on people is unacceptable in any circumstance that amassing private data should not be done sixteen percent say they don't want to give an opinion because they worry that their responses are being tracked and they don't want to be tracked by any government surveillance apparatus seven percent saying it is justifiable to look into people's personal data because it would help solve terror cases it could help track down the bad guys and they're ok with that three percent saying there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever they respond if they're saying that i don't have anything to hide or should anybody else if i'm not doing anything wrong what is there for me to really care about what do you think we've asked people to log onto our web site and give th

is collecting and storing huge amounts of sensitive personal data from online telephone traffic and then they're sharing it immediately with washington d.c. now british human rights activist peter tatchell he believes is the u.s. government and not mr snowden who should at the end of the day be punished. but she will deny the states will be doubling its efforts to try and intercept him and to get an extradition from whatever country they can i think the context of this is that the united states spies on its own citizens it also spies on the citizens of millions of other countries i mean millions of people in other countries and this is done without the permission of those countries it is technically illegal and what is extraordinary is that it would snowden was employed by the united states as a spy yet now they are seeking to arrest him for spying it seems complete and utter hypocrisy when. its own citizens and citizens around the world on a massive scale without proper governmental into strict oversight either within the united states or other countries around the world. now mr snowden

and has whistleblowers such as snowden reveal governments appetite for personal data we're interested in how you feel about your private information being collected by security agencies on our website we've asked for your opinions this is how it's been panning out so far take a look seventy four percent major majority of you saying that spying on people is unacceptable and putting up private data without peoples' warning is just wrong this little sliver here sixteen percent of the pie no opinion say that the government tracks their answers and they don't want to give their opinion online and they could be tracked by secure. agencies this little gold bit seven percent justifiable if the government is looking for terrorists but not collecting information in the mass if you will them in this small little green a sliver here three percent say well there's really nothing wrong about it and they don't worry about the government getting access to their personal information because they're not doing anything wrong anyway you can get involved and cast your vote we want to hear what you have to

and as such as snowden revealed government appetite for personal data we're interested in how you feel about your private information being collected by security agencies and this is how you've been voting so far on our web site r t v dot com the overwhelming majority as you can see collecting private data without warning is totally unacceptable and then significantly less people at sixteen percent say they can provide their answers online they're going to go online and tell us what we think they think because they could easily be tracked by security agencies right now seven percent of you are sure that snooping is totally justified but only in the case of spying on terror suspects without the mass tracking of everybody else and finally well if you've got nothing to hide what are you worried about three percent so far no response to our online poll do you get involved to cast a vote r.t. dot com. twenty seven minutes past the hour now we'll have more updates on the edward snowden story in about thirty minutes from no i'll be that man with the news team but up next with the dead numberi

to hand over personal data they obliged with about seventy nine percent i think was the number facebook around the same sort of numbers as as apple when details broke of prism and it was suggested that the n.s.a. just is plugged right into the servers of these tech companies there's like companies came out and said hey we don't know what prism is we're you know washing our hands clean of this well it's probably they just didn't know the lingo of prism you know that's what it's called in the n.s.a. that's a program top secret program that's not what they tell the tech companies when they're saying they're collecting the information so i think there's a lot of you know the tech companies are complicit in handing over data of their customers to the government the question is how much pressure are they under to do this if if say facebook said no we're not going to abide by this or if apple said no we're not going to hand over any of this data what sort of consequences really are there are there is the c.e.o. going to be thrown into prison is the company going to be shutdown i doubt any of t

however, when you are taking personal data and not personal data is being used for the government to basically do what ever they are saying, that is different than the expectation of privacy. they keep eroding these type of rights. i think any major city like las vegas or otherwise needs to stand up for individual rights. cheryl: thank you. good to see you. >> always a pleasure to be here. dennis: he is the king of bonds. it is no time to stop buying. cheryl: iran supreme leader blames the u.s. for not mentioning a deal on that country's nuclear program. we will show you where the smart money is being invested. dennis: take a look at energy. ♪ [ male announc] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. it's just common sense. and you would't have it any

extensive data from phone service provider verizon and he told china hundreds of targets there were being hacked and according to his latest leak the u.k. is collecting and storing huge amounts of personal sensitive data from online and telephone traffic and sharing it with america well u.k. investigative journalist tony gosling believes the revelations a bigger than many think. the real impact of what he's done here is only now starting to be realized it's not only is he exposing criminality the signals intelligence part of the british intelligence services also the national security agency but he's also showing that much of that intelligence contains information which may bring criminal prosecutions for example of war crimes criminal criminal prosecutions against for example bankers but this is what people don't necessary understand is there will be information that edward snowden has that can actually bring some of these people to trial eventually and that's why the west is so afraid if britain was really serious about any kind of real justice we would be able to invite him to london and say yes you can tell all your secrets or your stories to people here in britain you'll be safe he

of our personal rights, namely privacy under the fourth amendment? >> no. data already exists. they just move it from here to there. >> that's right. and they look for patterns. i want to quote david simon, he's the creator of the wire on hbo. he liken this is not only to trying to find the needle in the haystack. this is trying to find the needles before they're placed in the haystack. we don't want to surrender that. there have been no documented abuses. >> i feel better now. none that we know of. this thing is so secretive. we're willing to accept it. we don't know what they're doing doing. [yelling over each other] >> i don't feel that my privacy has been violated. what i would feel -- if i was in the subway and the thing blue up. >> are we going to have to -- >> it just came out. >> you want to change the whole mood of this country, have a couple of terrorist attacks that go off without the ability to stop them. >> you're so trusting. why couldn't they track down the guys in boston. >> they can tape to reall the elements of your appetite. >> i'm a vegan, so

snowden has claimed extraordinary access to personal data. former officials say he's exaggerating. >> snowden is wrong. he could not possibly have done the things he claimed he was able to do in terms of tapping communications. >> but in a website with "the guardian" snowden wrote if i target for an example an meal address and that e-mail address is sent something to you, joe america, everything comes through. snowden denied any contact with the chinese government writing this is a predictable smeerl that i anticipated before going the public as the u.s. media has a predicted red china. >> i think he's a traitor. >> snowden wrote being called a traitor by dick cheney is the highest honor you could imagine. >>> as of today, afghan forces are taking the lead for the country's security from the u.s.-led nato coalition. president what mid karzai provided over the hearing in kabul. it was met with a new round of violence. american forces will now move entirely into a supporting role before their full withdraw next year. >>> massive demonstrations

from then on, airlines must pass on sensitive data to russian authorities. at that includes personal addresses, telephone numbers, and credit card numbers. officials say the law was properly communicated. >> we do regret that the russian authorities did not inform the commission about their intentions to request passenger data from airlines. >> it may seem a minor point of protocol, but many see it as a bad beginning for the summit that kicks off monday night. >> we have to do business with russia, but only to a limited extent. russia is no longer regarded as a real partner for the eu. >> it could go to the european parliament. in the meantime, officials say it is possible that to the eu may hold back on passing legislation friendly to russia. >> we have to put some pressure on russia to withdraw this demand. we art discussing reducing visa restrictions. we should bar its passing until russia withdraws its new decree. >> european airlines face flight and landing restrictions if they do not comply with russians new decree. they're hoping there is still time to convince moscow to aband

second person data and both can choose bride or groom. in fairfield, john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we're getting rid of the humid conditions and bringing in heat. i'll show you how much warmer it will get tomorrow. >>> bart workers take a big step toward a strike. >> going to be a lot of people in trouble. >> how a walkout could affect people who don't ride bart. >>> up next. >> you park your car, lock it up, come back and it's gone. ♪ [ roars ] ♪ ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ male announcer ] universal studios summer of survival. ♪ >>> five bay area cities have earn add dubious distinct. they are among the top american cities for auto theft. noelle walker live in san jose, which has seen an explosion in this crime. >> reporter: we're here in san jose tonight because this city in particular has seen a staggering spike in one particular kind of crime you could call it the great automobile disappearing act. we are attached to our vehicles. those wheels we rely on are rolling around with a target on their trunks. there's a spike in aut

from then on, airlines must pass on sensitive data to russian authorities. at that includes personal addresses, telephone numbers, and credit card numbers. officials say the law was properly communicated. >> we do regret that the russian authorities did not inform the commission about their intentions to request passenger data from airlines. >> it may seem a minor point of protocol, but many see it as a bad beginning for the summit that kicks off monday night. >> we have to do business with russia, but only to a limited extent. russia is no longer regarded as a real partner for the eu. >> it could go to the european parliament. in the meantime, officials say it is possible that to the eu may hold back on passing legislation friendly to russia. >> we have to put some pressure on russia to withdraw this demand. we art discussing reducing visa restrictions. we should bar its passing until russia withdraws its new decree. >> european airlines face flight and landing restrictions if they do not comply with russians new decree. they're hoping there is still time to convince moscow to aband

second person data and both can choose bride or groom. in fairfield, john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we're getting rid of the humid conditions and bringing in heat. i'll show you how much warmer it will get tomorrow. >>> bart workers take a big step toward a strike. >> going to be a lot of people in trouble. >> how a walkout >>> five bay area cities have earn add dubious distinct. they are among the top american cities for auto theft. noelle walker live in san jose, which has seen an explosion in this crime. >> reporter: we're here in san jose tonight because this city in particular has seen a staggering spike in one particular kind of crime you could call it the great automobile disappearing act. we are attached to our vehicles. those wheels we rely on are rolling around with a target on their trunks. there's a spike in auto thefts. >> i left the keys in the ignition in the driveway. >> reporter: you made is to easy. >> yeah. it was easy. >> we have seen a huge increase on vehicle theft. >> reporter: it's such a problem, the highwa

if the government holds on to that personal data, is that an erowings of our rights under the fourth amendment? >> no. because data already exists, john. they just move it from here to there. >> that's right. they look for patterns. i want to quote david simon, the creator of the wire on hbo. he likens this not only to try to find the needle in the haystack. this is trying to identify the needles before they're placed in the haystack. this is what the information makes possible. and we don't want to surrender that. and, you know, there have been no documented abuses. >> i feel better now. susan. >> none that we know of. that's the thing. this thing is so secretive and we accept it. >> what would you do, destroy all of the information. >> it's not much of a secret anymore. >> i want to reaffirm, reestablish, reroute privacy in this country. how do you do it. >> i don't feel that my privacy has been violated. what i would feel is if i was in a subway and the thing blew up. okay. >> we're going to have to -- >> this came out. >> well, so safety rules. >> of course. of course. >> you want

spy agency in the spotlight now it's been collecting and storing huge amounts of sensitive personal data from on line and telephone traffic and sharing it with its american partners as a city looks at the latest leak. certainly a new twists and it reveals a vast and compassing program operation in place by the few here in the u.k. it shows that they have been a collecting and storing vast quantities of information ranging from facebook posts to phone calls as well as internet even internet histories basically they have had access to fiber optic cables that carry the world's phone calls if you remember you can the n.s.a. said that they did not record phone calls but according to these latest revelations by edward snowden that up to six hundred million quote unquote telephone events last year were recorded a day by you can imagine the vast amount of data that they are now able to tap into to store and to analyze and share with the u.s. as a national security agency or at the n.s.a. if you look at the documents at snowden have provided the titles of some of the main components were masterin

government is facing fresh allegations that its widespread mining of personal data as part of effortso combat terrorism. the "washington post" said that they have tapped into the servers of nine leading u.s. firms. it says the nsa and the fbi are collecting data from the servers of microsoft, google, facebook, apple and other service providers. the newspaper says the agencies are extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails and other information uploaded by non-americans. the post says the program goes by the code name "prison" and was launched in 2007. director of national intelligence james clapper said the article contained numerous inaccuracies. but he said information collected under the program is the most valuable foreign intelligence that officials have obtained. facebook denied providing any government organization direct access to its servers. representatives at apple say they've never heard of the program. the latest allegation follows a report by britain's guardian newspaper that the nsa was secretly examining the phone records of millions of u.s. citizens. >>> j

so how can you protect your device and personal data from outright robbery?o outsmart the thieves. don't go away. ♪ liz: new york and san francisco prosecutors announcing today a brand new initiative urging the cell phone industry to adopt technology that would help fight against the growing problem of cell phone robbery. so what type of technology would really help? david: joining us now is kevin mahaffey, co-founder and chief technology of lookout, mobile security technology. he just met with attorneys general from new york and california to talk about this and try to help them. my concern, i think everybody's concern, if you lose a cell phone ttese days for your own information to be secure. we have a system here at fox, so that if you lose or you have your cell phone stolen, immediately they can send a signal that wipes out all your personal data. is that what we should have with all cell phones? >> i think most mobile phones you can buy today have the ability to remotely locate it and remotely wipe it. one of the big problems we have right now is that mo

. >> it has brought into the limelight the government snooping of personal data. this report on what happened to the issue of domestic spying. >> the case of edward stoughton followed obama on thursday. he was asked how far he would go to bring the accused intelligence leader to justice. >> i will not be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker. >> obama said he would not damage relations with hong kong, china, or russia just to get snowden. he said there is a bigger issue to tackle, whether the u.s. should be collecting information on every u.s. person's phone and e-mail communication, a program snowden recently leaked to several newspapers. >> i am focused on making sure that we have a healthy, effective debate in the united oures about how we balance security and our privacy concerns, because these programs, which i believe make america safe, helped make america safe, and i believe draw rightpropriate balance, now are generating a lot of questions in the press and in the american public. >> that debate may be getting hotter. on thursday, the guardian newspap

and there's whistleblowers such as snowden revealed government's appetite for personal data interested in how you feel about your private information being collected by security agencies and this is how you've been voting so far on our website r.t. dot com and we can see that the overwhelming majority of you think that collecting private data without any warning whatsoever is totally unacceptable and then significantly less people are saying they can't provide their orders online because they could easily be tracked by security agencies right now seven percent of you assure that snooping is justified but only in cases for spying on terror suspects and averting atrocities without mass tracking of everybody and we can see that the minority there three percent so what's a problem if you've got nothing to hide and that this sort of monitoring and surveillance continue there's a you all thought to be good to get involved you haven't done so already cost your vote dot com it's on our home page. well we'll have more hop dates on the edward snowden story in about thirty minutes from now when i

a former contractor for the national security agency disclosed the nsa was collecting personal data from major telecom and i.t. companies. edward snowden revelations have prompted the public to criticize the u.s. government and the firms. >>> this is the face of terror. a man about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit. millions of people in the former soviet union lost their lives under the regime of joseph stalin. the worst period during the 1930s came to be known as the great purge, or the great terror. a polish photo journalist spent four years documenting what happened. now he's published some portraits of the past. nhk world reports. >> reporter: this album of photos, entitled "the great terror, 1937-1938," was published in march. the book includes portraits of 60 people can killed during that period of repression. all of them were arrested and sentenced to death. most were executed within days. in the 1930s, stalin unleashed a massive campaign of political repressi repression, targeting senior party and military officers, as well as ordinary people, accused of being enemies

washington post and other papers it allows the fbi to dig through those company's central servers for personal data including e-mails, audio files, photos, videos. the program is called prism established in 2007. apple was among the companies named but they have denied ever taking part. turns out, though, that was just the second piece of disturbing news today on privacy and what you might have thought the legal limits were. a top secret court ordered verizon to turn over to the government the phone record of millions of americans. >> it began this morning with published reports out of britain. >> the government has access to millions of u.s. phone records. the nsa is collecting records from verizon customers under a top secret court order. >> the idea is to track down terrorists and whoever they're talking to in the country. the administration would neither confirm nor deny. >> i don't think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss the issue. i would be more than be glad to come back in an appropriate setting. >> it was apparent the scouring was no revelation on capitol hill. >> everyone s

new revelations of the scope of the government's surveillance of your personal data.ast night, glen greenwald broke the story that the national security agency is collecting records of every verizon phone call made in the united states and abroad. tonight, glen greenwald and the "washington post" are together, breaking the story that the nsa is tapping into the internet's giant systems to mine user data, including the giants, google, facebook, and apple. the companies have denied any knowledge of that program. glen greenwald, who broke both of these stories, will join us later. but first, let's get what's happening in washington tonight from nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams. pete, did the cascading of these stories over 24 hours now -- seems a little overwhelming, frankly, to keep up with. >> well, it does, and presents a couple problems. number one, these programs are classified. so we know only what we have been told by members of congress who are familiar with them, by government officials who have been authorized to talk about them. and from other sou

snowden has claimed extraordinary access to personal data. former officials say he's exaggerating. >> snowden is wrong. he could not possibly have done the things he claimed he was able to do in terms of tapping communications. >> reporter: but in a web chat with "the guardian" snowden wrote if i target for an example an e-mail address and that e-mail address is sent something to you, joe america, everything comes through. snowden denied any contact with the chinese government writing this is a predictable smear that i anticipated before going the public as the u.s. media has a predicted red china. >> i think he's a traitor. >> reporter: snowden wrote, being called a traitor by dick cheney is the highest honor you could imagine. >>> a major turning point in the war against afghanistan. >>> as of today, afghan forces are taking the lead for the country's security from the u.s.-led nato coalition. president what mid karzai provided over the hearing in kabul. it was met with a new round of violence. american forces will now move entirely into a