what it does it secures you against bulk collection so if the n.s.a. g c h q the chinese government the russian government any other country is eavesdropping on the communications link encrypted will protect the contents of your communication. that was cryptologist bruce schneier time now. big deal time on this day with no one for edward harrison now today we're discussing a couple things we're going to start off with apple t.v. then we're going to snap chat and then bit torrent now our first two stories have to do with security and privacy first open whisper systems and open source software group has announced the creation of the signal now that's a free app that allows people to encrypt their phone calls for free so how does this work what's the start of this so basically you were talking to bruce schneier about encryption and the point is here that you want to be able to take phone calls and be able to encrypt without having to do a whole bunch of whiz bang stuff you know you have the black which allows people to basically be able to use their teleph

a lot of it is is masked so and the n.s.a. has been very upfront that yeah we do sometimes sweep american good american data in with the sweeps but we mask most of it we mark it as you know we're not allowed to look at it then delete it obviously because stone was able to access it. according to the post reporter some sixty five thousand. massed entries and at least nine hundred that they found there were unmasked but pretty clearly were american references to americans e-mails so this this information just kind of floating around in the ether i mean that that's kind of scary right in that i can read your e-mails my e-mails i mean also we see you know conflicting communications coming from after these reports you know what we know we filter out what we don't need but you know we look at the original report in the washington post and you know we see them talking about well. there could be something that looks or all of them but since we have this information we're going to hold on to it and see if it becomes relevant oid or you

the n.s.a. is destroyed and shut down completely bass surveillance is not covered by the fourth amendment of the constitution you have to have a specific warrant against a specific cause. and it does it's just not supported so it's encouraging to see the supreme court holding up the fourth amendment but we need to see a lot more cases come forward before the n.s.a. start to see any real impact on that. it was pretty relevant and very conversational at the big stories of the day talking of which the off the breakdown a bully could say it's not discussing ukraine this crisis with the european commission of knowledge when will depart coming up very shortly. yes it's official the mainstream media must be made up of stereotypical gossipy teenage girls i mean how else can you explain the fact that michelle obama using the term chipped has become a scandal i don't white house summit on working families mrs obama explained that when she was working part time she realized she was getting chipped because s

over the weekend the washington post broke the latest n.s.a. leak by whistleblower edward snowden this time revealing just how many ordinary people are swept up of the dragnet surveillance cornu these select documents for every one and tended surveillance target nine so-called incidental or inadvertent targets are caught up in the spying net but beyond the overwhelming amount of ordinary americans being targeted elite contain other startling revelations such as the fact the fires the courts intercepted communications were not beyond snowden's reach as government officials have claimed for the last year demonstrating just how and secure these data centers really are and shockingly obama himself was catalogued over a thousand times within the documents along with other high ranking government officials making clear that there are no restrictions on how far the n.s.a. will go well earlier i spoke to kevin the stolen journalist at firedoglake and i first asked him to break down some content i was indiscriminately swept up and archived by the agency.

in my opinion the n.s.a. as a grew up the agency if i as an individual had undertaken the same actions i would be thrown into prison for thirty years any attempt to reform in my opinion is like bailing out the ship that's already sunk there have been two attempts by the u.s. congress to try and defund the n.s.a. both which of failed my opinion is the u.s. congress is more interested in being paranoid and aggressive than taking care of americans need so i don't have a lot of optimism that much is going to change at all. i say is destroyed and shut down completely bass surveillance is not covered by the fourth amendment of the constitution you have to have a specific warrant against a specific cause. and it does it's just not supported so it's encouraging to see the supreme court holding up the fourth amendment but we need to see a lot more cases come forward before the n.s.a. start to see any real impact on that. series of bomb blasts have gone off in cairo one of them killing at least two people some of the ma

the n.s.a. is destroyed and shut down completely bass surveillance is not covered by the fourth amendment of the constitution you have to have a specific warrant against a specific cause. and it does it's just not supported so it's encouraging to see the supreme court holding up the fourth amendment but we need to see a lot more cases come forward before the n.s.a. start to see any real impact on that. a series of bomb blasts in cairo skilled at least two people on the day marking a year now since the military coup that led to some of the worst bloodshed in decades ahead of the anniversary calls for a day of rage from supporters of the former leadership resulted in several arrests egypt's got a long history of military leaders pretty decisive hosni mubarak was named he ruled the country for three decades following the country's arab spring was elected he was a military man but the revolutions hopes of democracy were quickly desh by that military coup and so once again a full chief is in charge th

the n.s.a. surveillance of us about it like in the fallen minister he's about to give a speech in parliament saying that he got some reassurances from the u.s. or something like that there are certain issues because of national security that we may not know. there may be certain instances. that need warrant some type of ever made. gathering but when it comes down to the. breaking of the privacy rules no individual or individuals so innocent individuals that's a whole different story so we need to look at that we need to consider that we need more information from our government that much should know what's going on and they ought to tell the gaming people from a time when we are in a position to make a determination that should be you know like i'm giving people and i say stickers all right give you some just to put on your phone so you know we'll get. the people of the bahamas folk to put color in school to protest fulfill say from a. deputy prime minister philip davis he said we didn't give our

which was specifically to look at the data that n.s.a. collected to find criminal activity and then they would use that to go arrest people and after the arrest you know if they'd say. part way here in this park in what way for a truck to pull in go arrest the guy bring the drug dog in the drugs and then you can the policy was you could not use any of this information documented in any court records and you couldn't tell the judge who were the prosecuting of defending attorneys about it you had to do a parallel construction that meant they knew where the data was so you go through do your normal policing that you would do to find evidence and then you substitute that for the n.s.a. data as the basis for arresting them but i call that basically a planned program purgery policy run by the department of justice of the united states now it's not only the united states now because they share that with foreign counterparts so that goes all the way around the world so they're subverting the entire judicial process here and around the world so the

although the n.s.a. as dominated the headlines when it comes to the spying on the world it's a british counterpart if you see h.q. is just as complicit in the illegal surveillance crowd but it's not just the collection and storage of private data it's also the shaping of our online experience when the recently released documents by whistleblower edward snowden and british spies are using supposed to get. tools to manipulate online content through these documents we've learned that the agency can artificially increase traffic to a website for results and even geo locate the i p's with an entire city despite the growing outrage in the u.k. over the extent of collaborative surveillance with the u. west spy agencies the british parliament is rushing through legislation that further expands its surveillance powers nearby in germany the international outrage over the n.s.a. has recently peaked as allegations surfaced implicating two german government employees in a spy operation run by u.s. intelligence in resp

and we think it's because he's the one that went to the press the n.s.a. was very much trying to and the government for that matter send a message if you work in the intelligence community and you talk to the press you're going to get hammered and so they want to make an example whether they won the case or not was not important to the government they wanted to send a message and that's why they went out and they actually said you know they they require this document they had specifically taken that was unclassified. extremely shady it. was also material that they had independently released publicly publicly and jim bamford also provided that to the judge bennett in the court. kirk i want to actually build let's talk about and i would start in tomorrow of course the anniversary of the leaks i want to play a quick clip from this n.b.c. interview checked out. they found that we had all of the information we needed as an intelligence community as a classified sector as the national defense of the united states. to detect this plot we actually had records of th

in my opinion the n.s.a. is a grew up the agency if i as an individual had undertaken the same actions i would be thrown into prison for thirty years any attempt to reform in my opinion is like bailing out the ship that's already suck they did have a process that those limits what n.s.a. looks at and can take in and store in its database so that you can take a look at that the storage facilities they're building you get an idea of how much they're taking in like a million square foot storage facility in bluff deal utah and other stories that they've had existing all along at fort meade as well as other facilities around the world the new york times report has revealed that the security contract is once known as blackwater threaten to kill government officials investigating the during the u.s. campaign in iraq what's more the agents could do nothing about it because of the company's power during the war facing investigate is a manager of the guns for hire company said and i quote that he could kill you agents a

government in the wake of the leaks made by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden however now the mega corporation is taking its measures of control one step further by hiring police. facebook is now funding the salary of mary ferguson it eight year veteran of the menlo park police force the social network giant is putting up one hundred ninety four thousand dollars for her pay benefits and related costs for the next three years she will focus on at risk youth in the area and help businesses plan for emergencies menlo park police chief bob johnson says facebook pays the bills but that's all. yes facebook now has police on its payroll and hopes by so why are more people outraged over the extent of private sector surveillance and occupying silicon valley earlier i was joined by journalist and host of media rich radio robbie martin and i started by asking him just that. thank you i think the the most prominent reason is that most people still view these silicon valley companies as benign. public utilities really convenient you know services

philip called the incident deeply shocking a second look back at the scandals around of the n.s.a.'s spying in germany and now the full scale of the snooping came to light last june the agency assessed access to up to half a billion german data connections every month a month later it was a reveal that germany intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency's infamous x. keyscore software in a turnover and international scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of the german chancellor angela merkel had been tapped and at the end of that year it becomes clear that the british intelligence agency was also at least dropping on a german target as nine february this year german media reported the n.s.a. had tapped the then chancellor phone calls in of the run of the two thousand and three us led invasion of iraq author of and published as william and hall believes the us isn't going to stop spying on its allies any time soon. obama administration is clearly hypocritical it has no intention obviously of. downscaling any of its espionage activities on european union polit

in the meantime the n.s.a. has been spying on its own people on its friends and even on entire nations recording every phone call made in the bahamas and it's a later in the program we'll take you to this on the islands to find out what people and the government think about being watched by washington and what they plan to do about it. over to ukraine now where the president has visited sloviansk the scene of the fiercest fighting during crackdown on anti-government protesters and the east petro poroshenko praised the efforts to liberate the city while this is the result that you're seeing of those operations and efforts and international monitoring body says the military fired indiscriminately and locals believe only hide in the basements as won't save their lives. but look at the carnage number lost for us from the most vocal of the photo shoot and we. threw it over to the. commission i did to buy you. a. very nice mutineers notion what to eat. the next stops for the ukrainian army are two of the largest citie

on the latest send us a leaks a new document shows that a federal court allowed the n.s.a. to gather information on a hundred and ninety three world governments all the details on that plan coming up . and eastern ukraine government forces clash with anti kept separatists ukraine's president decided to end a ceasefire as the violence returns more on the conflict later in the show. it's tuesday july first four pm in washington d.c. i'm your i david and you're watching r.t. america well it's been a full year since former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden began leaking classified documents waking up americans and the rest of the world to the full extent of u.s. surveillance operations as a result of those revelations many people have been thinking about and looking for new ways to protect their privacy and that consumer demand may explain the new found popularity of black phone it's an encrypted smartphone that's designed to keep your conversations private the highly anticipated phone was revealed earlier this year as a joint venture between crypto service firm silent circle and

and in some places angry at the n.s.a. and decided things that the n.s.a. did were unconstitutional. the fisa court said what you're doing is unconstitutional and you need to stop, with regard to the 702 program felt it was mislead in part because the n.s.a. claimed its systems were too complex for even it to understand and fully brief the court on, which is concerning. but i mean from my perspective one of the biggest issues here, and it's been one of the issues for me for a long time, because i was involved in litigation as e.f.f., suing the n.s.a. over some of these programs when they were first revealed, i mentioned earlier the n.s.a. is kit sitting on the key internet exchange points in our own country such that they have technical access to all of those communications and then based on procedures approved by fisa court, doing some sorting to pick out what they want. we have been saying that and that's been front-page news since 2005. and yet that fact was classified until earlier this year. members of congress were never that debate or discuss basic ba

the n.s.a. doesn't spy on only foreign citizens the latest batch of edward snowden's revelations claim that the agency has been targeting prominent muslim americans even though there is no evidence any of them are connected to terrorism is where in a part i report on the reaction to the surveillance. in the wake of this latest government spying revelation the american civil liberties union has announced that a coalition of forty five civil and human rights organizations have written to us president barack obama demanding a full public accounting of these latest surveillance prop this is in question now affording to the interests of the five american muslim citizens that had their e-mails monitored by the n.s.a. and the f.b.i. in food aid rutgers university professor who is also president of the american iranian council an attorney who represents clients in terrorism related cases the executive director of care the largest muslim civil rights organization in america the national chairman of the am

the snowden leaks on the n.s.a. spying agenda has given the world a better understanding of exactly how the u.s. can government conducts surveillance on innocent civilians but thanks to a recent article by the intercepts we now know exactly who is being singled out by u.s. agencies the article highlights five prominent muslim americans from diverse backgrounds from academia to islamic rights organizations now i'm joined by one of the men targeted by saul gill former homeland security official under the bush administration thank you so much for coming. don i thank you so much for having me so how did you first find out that you were specifically targeted by the n.s.a. i received a call from glenn greenwald asking me if i could meet him somewhere in either in washington d.c. or new york i went to new york to meet him and that's where he told me that i was actually targeted by the n.s.a. and what was your initial reaction when you found out that it was just a shock i mean i couldn't believe it i didn't think why what i

in my opinion the n.s.a. s a grew up the agency if i as an individual had undertaken the same actions i would be thrown into prison for thirty years any attempt to reform in my opinion is like bailing out the ship that's already sunk they weren't snowden revealed a wide scale surveillance anything really changed since that information became public there have been two attempts by the us congress to try and defund the n.s.a. both which of failed my opinion is the us congress is more interested in being paranoid and aggressive than taking care of americans needs like health and education and science so i don't have a lot of optimism that much is going to change at all. the n.s.a. is destroyed and shut down completely. why did companies like verizon provide information to the government then. i think a lot of these companies that provided wholesale spying information were trying to curry favor with the government a lot of them get. grants and and contracts from the government tax breaks and they don't want to be

coming up on r t a new and as a link the document shows that a federal court allowed the n.s.a. to gather information on one hundred ninety three world governments all the details on that just ahead. and as concerns grow over digital privacy there's also a consumer demand a new phone is on the market that's designed to protect your privacy from snooping government agencies more on that coming up. and in eastern ukraine government forces clash with anti-aids you have separatists ukraine's president decided to end the ceasefire as the violence returns more on the conflicts later in the show. it's tuesday july first evening out in washington d.c. i mean we are a day that and you're watching r.t. america with privacy on the minds of many americans a new national security agency leak shows the spy agency has a wider reach than one thought according to documents released by edward snowden obtained by the washington post a federal court permitted the n.s.a. to collect information about governments and one hundred ninety three countries as well as on foreign institutions like the world b

in my opinion the n.s.a. is a corrupt agency if i as an individual had undertaken the same actions i would be thrown into prison for thirty years any attempt to reform in my opinion is like bailing out the ship that's already suck they did have a process that those limits what n.s.a. looks at and can take in and store in its database and you can take a look at the the storage facilities they're building you get an idea of how much they're taking in like a million square foot storage facility in bluffdale utah and other stories that they've had existing all along at fort meade as well as other facilities around the world. the fear of growing islamification in austria is seeing campaign is their push to ban the birth right wing is why women should be stopped from wearing full face veils in public r.t. dot com tells you why it also one line is plenty of toxic substances to be found in mexico city but one thing police didn't expect to find was a load of radioactive material online will tell you how it probably got