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To justify the surveillance

state that we now live in.

The messages are free

to use, and most importantly,

they're encrypted,

So the police can't

actually get in there

to decrypt what happened.

So that's prompted calls to

shut down the entire network.

[narrator]

it's easy to justify using these

technologies to stop a riot.

But shouldn't we be

concerned when the government

is able to read our emails,

Text messages, phone calls,

search history...

To track our movements and

limit our free speech?

What crime did that

seventh-grade boy really commit?

Is having zombies at

a royal wedding really so bad?

What about milly's parents?

And what happens when

these technologies are used

to watch peaceful protesters,

Like all of the people

that occupy wall street,

or the tea party folks?

What happens if the government

doesn't like tents being set up?

[yelling, screaming]

Despite all of this,

it was starting

to seem like, so what?

So what if

the government can acquire

all of this information?

Maybe it's good they

can keep the peace when

riots are happening.

And besides, maybe

it was already too late.

I mean, it's certainly dying.

Whether or not it--

For privacy to--

I mean, privacy's

going to remain dead

Unless there's a really

fundamental shift in...

The dynamics by which

that's decided, by which I mean,

The only really effective

response is to monitor and

to change the behavior,

The tendencies of the

intelligence industry

And law enforcement and

all that, and even companies.

And that's very, very unlikely.

I don't know exactly

who the 'us' is, but

I'm very critical of us.

I think that this is an area

In which we have allowed

ourselves to be smitten,

We want this technology

to grow and grow,

And we don't want anything

to rain on our parade.

And we have woken up

to the privacy concerns...

In my view,

at least four years too late.

I mean, is privacy dead?

Yeah, without question.

Without question, yeah,

it's dead.

It's safe to work

under the assumption

that nothing's private.

You know,

anything that's been

digitized is not private.

And that is terrifying.

When this becomes

the size of a blood cell,

And I can just

send them into my brain

And my body

through the bloodstream,

This'll become

quite ubiquitous,

And it really will be

part of who we are.

People say, well, okay,

That's gonna be a real

threshold to move beyond,

But I don't think so.

It's a very smooth continuum

From, you know,

when I was a student

And I had to take my bicycle

to get to the computer

To having it in my pocket

to having it in my body.

It's a convenient

place to put it;

I won't lose it that way.

But they say if you put

a frog in a pot of water

And slowly turn up the heat,

The frog'll just die,

because it doesn't realize

it's boiling.

And I think that,

like anything else,

I think we're opting in

a centimeter at a time,

And, you know, pretty soon

you' prerey far down the road,

You look behind you

and you sort of wonder

how you got where you were.

I think that's true.

It's just completely

out of control.

I mean, it's just--

sky's the limit, you know.

They know everything

about us now.

It takes someone--

it takes someone

who is in charge of laws

Having what is being done

to american citizens

Done to their email account

or to their facebook profile.

Right, if it's personal,

they're gonna pay attention

to it.

All of these powerful

institutions,

They're not subject

to the same invasions of privacy

as the rest of us are.

Eric schmidt,

the ceo of google, once said,

"if you have something that

you don't want anyone to know,

Maybe you shouldn't

be doing it in the first place."

Then he got very angry

when cnet,

Which is owned by cbs,

published a picture

of his house.

[mouse clicking]

When you ask google

about "do not track,"

They claim, "we have to

understand how to define that

Before we can implement

any technology."

"do not track's" pretty simple.

It means we don't want

to be tracked.

The only reason google

doesn't understand it

Is because google

doesn't want to implement it.

Unless someone comes

and makes it

No longer practical for them to

engage in that kind of activity,

Pressure is put upon ceos

of the companies,

They're going

to engage in it.

[mouse clicks]

We're going by the facebook

campus right now.

Really have no idea

what to expect.

Have not had breakfast.

Um...

Zuckerberg.

He'll know that I checked in

here, too, so that's good.

He knows that I'm

right next to his house.

Let's see, we have a--here's

the exact quote from mark.

So:
"having two identities

for yourself is an example

of a lack of integrity."

Lack of integrity.

They just did a knock-up

on his door,

So it seems very likely

that we might get

A mark zuckerberg

sighting today.

I mean,

you might not be wrong,

vince, ben.

He might actually

have a tunnel.

There's some definite

motion in the yard.

Is it the dog?

- Here we go.

- That's him.

Mr. Zuckerberg?

Hey, I'm working on

a documentary.

Got a little blog here,

But wondering if I could just

ask you a couple questions?

No, I-- sorry.

Really?

I have to be at work.

Can I ask,

do you still think

privacy is dead?

What are your

real thoughts on privacy?

Are you guys recording?

Um-- we are.

Could you please not?

Um-- I can stop, yeah.

All right.

[narrator]

mark zuckerberg had asked me

to please not record him.

So we shut off

the main camera.

But since mark

doesn't seem to mind

Storing our data after

we think it's been deleted,

this only seemed fair.

Can you please not?

Um-- I can stop, yeah.

All right.

Can I come by

your front desk, though,

And ask about setting up

an interview?

Yeah, I mean--

we have a department

Where you can talk

to people about that.

Yeah, I know, I've tried

going through it a few times,

And I never hear back.

[narrator]

there's a major difference here.

Mark loosens up after he thinks

we've stopped recording.

And you see that?

That right there.

That's a smile.

Mark zuckerberg smiled at me.

And you know why?

Because he thought

I had stopped recording,

And he was relieved.

Imagine what a relief

it would be

If all of these companies

and the government

Stopped recording

everything we do.

If we could just make

a simple request to them--

Something that mark zuckerberg

knows how to ask for.

"can you please not?"

Can yopleau not record us,

Monitor us,

and share our information,

unless we ask first?

We need terms and conditions

that are reasonable,

And we need privacy policies

That promote the most basic

principles of our democracy,

Rather than taking them away.

Or, as a young senator

once said,

Back before he became president:

We need to find a way forward

To make sure

that we can stop terrorists

While protecting privacy and

liberty of innocent americans.

We have to find a way

to give the president

The power he needs

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