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I say no, and all three branches of the American
government
say no as well.
But what we saw is, in the post-9/11 era, they used secrecy and they used the justification of terrorism to start these programs in secret without asking Congress, without asking the American people, and it's that kind of
government
behind closed doors that we need to guard ourselves against, because it makes us less safe, and it offers no value.
I don't want to harm my
government.
I want to help my government, but the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society, and say hey, this is not appropriate.
There was a recent legal article at Yale that established something called the Bankston-Soltani Principle, which is that our expectation of privacy is violated when the capabilities of
government
surveillance have become cheaper by an order of magnitude, and each time that occurs, we need to revisit and rebalance our privacy rights.
Now, that hasn't happened since the
government'
s surveillance powers have increased by several orders of magnitude, and that's why we're in the problem that we're in today, but there is still hope, because the power of individuals have also been increased by technology.
But at the same time, the
government
has hinted that they want some kind of deal, that they want me to compromise the journalists with which I've been working, to come back, and I want to make it very clear that I did not do this to be safe.
ES: I would say the last year has been a reminder that democracy may die behind closed doors, but we as individuals are born behind those same closed doors, and we don't have to give up our privacy to have good
government.
And I think by working together we can have both open
government
and private lives, and I look forward to working with everyone around the world to see that happen.
The comeback on that is a couple of things: one, that he certainly believes that as a contractor, the avenues that would have been available to him as an employee weren't available, two, there's a track record of other whistleblowers, like [Thomas Andrews Drake] being treated pretty harshly, by some views, and thirdly, what he was taking on was not one specific flaw that he'd discovered, but programs that had been approved by all three branches of
government.
I think there's also an amazing arrogance to the idea that he knows better than the framers of the Constitution in how the
government
should be designed and work for separation of powers and the fact that the executive and the legislative branch have to work together and they have checks and balances on each other, and then the judicial branch, which oversees the entire process.
They're trying to hide from the
government'
s ability to isolate and interdict their actions, and so we have to swim in that same space.
I think cyber is a threat in three ways: One way, and probably the most common way that people have heard about it, is due to the theft of intellectual property, so basically, foreign countries going in, stealing companies' secrets, and then providing that information to state-owned enterprises or companies connected to the
government
to help them leapfrog technology or to gain business intelligence that's then used to win contracts overseas.
This is a legitimate activity of the United States foreign
government
that was agreed to by all the branches of the United States government, and President Madison would have been proud.
But there is a strong tradition in American jurisprudence of having discussions with people who have been charged with crimes in order to, if it benefits the government, to get something out of that, that there's always room for that kind of discussion.
CA: To a lay person it seems like he has certain things to offer the U.S., the government, you, others, in terms of putting things right and helping figure out a smarter policy, a smarter way forward for the future.
This is a really important conversation, and it impacts, it's not just NSA, it's not just the government, it's you, it's the Internet companies.
The issue of privacy and personal data is much bigger than just the government, and so learn the facts.
I think for me, it's tremendously disappointing that the
government
secretly did all this stuff and didn't tell us.
I don't think we can have a democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the
government
for stuff that we've never had a conversation about.
And I don't mean we have to know what the particular terrorist attack is they're worried about protecting us from, but we do need to know what the parameters of it is, what kind of surveillance the
government'
s going to do and how and why, and I think we haven't had that conversation.
So I think the
government'
s actually done itself a tremendous disservice by doing all that in secret.
So I'm sad that Google's in the position of protecting you and our users from the
government
doing secret thing that nobody knows about.
Copyright policy, Internet policy, how are you ever going to address those problems so long as there's this fundamental corruption in the way our
government
works?"
May the ideals of one boy unite one nation behind one critical idea that we are one people, we are the people who were promised a government, a
government
that was promised to be dependent upon the people alone, the people, who, as Madison told us, meant not the rich more than the poor.
MG: And her dad had told me how afraid he was that unlike the son, who had passed his secondary exams, because of her chores, she'd not done so well and wasn't in the
government
school yet.
And part of the reason I'm so optimistic is because I do think philanthropy is going to grow and take some of these things
government'
s not just good at working on and discovering and shine some light in the right direction.
With this in mind, even before carrying out the very first experiment, our team started to work with the public and the
government
to find solutions together to responsibly develop and regulate this new technology.
At the request of the US government, we downloaded the DNA sequence and in less than 12 hours, we printed it on the BioXp.
For the first time, we had a flu vaccine developed ahead of time for a new and potentially dangerous strain, and the US
government
ordered a stockpile.
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