there is a private firm known as vigilant video that is now focusing on
collecting as much data on as as possible
so they can sell it to one forested and to out their private companies
now this is an ongoing problem in the country you guys are all aware of it our
privacy is being violated and its all being done either in the name of
national security or just general safety
uh... and and that's when vigilant video is using to sell this they're saying
look we want to help police
and you know we're going to improve facial recognition data
we are going to collect as much information as we can from people
including license plate numbers and stuff like that
compile it into this database and you know it's gonna be good for everyone
and checked in every science-fiction movie i've ever seen it never turns out
that does it i mean you could look at every every movie and book from unit
nineteen eighty four and irobot minority report
and total recall list goes on and on blade runner
that all of this technology and this acquiescence that we just let all of our
information in our
digital fit footprint and then our our bodies and everything is going to be
tracking us constantly
rotary where google glass is the world to be spying on each other and what
happens
when your google ads are hacked into and you don't even know it endure
watching someone make a bet that is all over the internet i mean all of this
stuff
it's just building in building a building and i wonder what happens when
we get to the to the breaking point lightning eventually it's gonna get to a
point where everyone's documentaries going to be out there and we're just
gonna become desensitized to it at least that's the only
include possibility i could think of any
i think i really wish that we could fight back against this but i feel like
we've already crossed the line is really really difficult for us to move back and
protecting the privacy of
people living here
not just to give you an example of what this is the group says
out there but they're very very transparent about what their efforts are
they say that day
how plans to create the largest private sector law enforcement database in the
world
by about combining clayton reads with commercial databases face recognition
technology and more
well is a private firm doing so also seems odd to me not going to be much
happier for government is doing it but why is a private firm jumping into this
for agency i think i think that
the private firm is doing something extremely smart i don't agree with it
but they see that they're is
this thirst for private information really see that the government wants it
they see that law enforcement wants a anne we've become a police state and
when i say that people think that it's not a dramatic but i don't think it's
knowledge about it at all
when you have a department of justice obtaining two months worth of phone
records from the associated press
and an implicitly intimidating whistleblowers and leaguers
and when you have a despite information being collected on you on a regular
basis and we live in a police state what you think this is used for is a really
about national security right
i'm sure that it partly is but
i think the majority of it is about intimidation yet and i think this issue
between uh... liberty and security versus privacy and defend your right to
own yourself
i think this is maybe the biggest issue for the next ten years
because the technology we got it too fast it you know
you could look at face book as like the simplest example of this
when face book was cool like five or six years ago we all got on their everywhere
but it was great gave it all your information every picture he ever had in
every all kinds of him and ask my mom into it
and now you look at face book i think i'd is how i view this book
and it's like this disastrous conglomerate of mixed up messages in all
this stuff leading realizes public
and you act before numbers accidentally on the here you go
and it's like we're gonna see this with all this technology we keep getting it
we don't really know what it is until much later i'm meeting you're absolutely
right about that and also privacy settings are if you like are purposely
uh... confusing
rightly terms and conditions are purposely confusing they've always
it's always good purpose a comfort you saying you don't leave the forty pages
of terms and conditions that you just
okay identity and i believe it or not i remember we did a story about the new
privacy settings for face book once and i read through everything and you have
to really sit there and
paid close attention to the wording
sometimes things are made very very big or abroad
so i don't blame
aim everyday americans for not knowing what they're getting themselves into
on but i'd worry about this constantly because although i have nothing to hide
at
i'm an open book it's not about how uh... it's midsized idiots about feeling
like you know
a stranger will meet you and and not know who you are until you disclose that
information right
at anyone can go online type in my name and they will know everything about me
of course part of that has to do the fact that you be sure right
but i feel like i typed i'd put stuff on social media thinking it's private but a
lot of times it's not insurance craig what would you also just the one i think
that the government of some other parties
is is
category category using all of this and can't buy me in doing dot knows what to
it that study then sold
to some other permanent so the government's that's a big debate masback
it's interesting stuff because it's happening
we're watching it happen we're aware of it
and yet we don't know if you i don't think it's incredible and also outlook
understand why the associated press is upset about what the department of
justice has done
right but i don't see them freaking out about what this magazine very is doing
with the private information of american citizens
you know how can they haven't really panicked about that
adderall since it's been happening during the bush administration