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About the safety of

a thirteen-year-old girl

Who hasn't been seen

since Thursday afternoon.

[narrator] before the police

found her body, her parents

were holding on to hopes

That she might still be alive.

I'd say if someone has taken

milly and is holding her,

Then please, please,

give her back to us.

[narrator]

why is that, you might ask?

Well, because according

to phone records,

Milly had checked

and deleted her voicemail.

We were sitting

downstairs in reception

and I rang her phone.

- Yes.

- And it clicked through

onto her voicemail,

- So I heard her voice.

- Yes.

And I was-- it was just like,

I jumped-- she's picked up

her voicemails, bob!

She's alive!

And I was just--

it was then, really.

[narrator]

as it turned out, members of

rupert murdoch's corporation

Had been hacking

into milly's phone,

Trying to be the first

to reveal details of

this national news story.

I think this is the watershed

moment, when finally

the public start to see,

And feel above all, just

how low and how disgusting

This particular newspaper's

methods were.

This was

a murdered schoolgirl,

And the thought that

a very tight-knit circle

Of very senior politicians

Linked up very closely,

intimately, with the police

And with the media mogul

rupert murdoch.

[newscaster] for 30 years,

as british prime ministers came

and most certainly went,

A constant character in their

worlds was rupert murdoch.

The billionaire media mogul--

[narrator]

for years, celebrities,

and individuals like milly,

Had the voicemails they thought

were hidden and private

Accessed by rupert murdoch's

corporation, at the expense

of people like milly's parents.

And it took nearly

a decade to expose the misuse

of this highly personal data.

Transparency, which, you know,

bonds us together and gives us

all so many friends

That we didn't know before,

but all these friends

that are connected,

Gives the state an absolutely

unparalleled in the history of

humanity

Ability to know what's going on

in its citizens, to find out

who the dissenters are.

The government is making

whistle-blowing a crime.

They are making

dissent a crime.

Especially when it embarrasses

the government and calls

the government to account.

If sources are gonna get

discovered,

And if whistleblowers cannot

securely and anonymously provide

That information to journalists,

We as a society won't know

when our rights are being

silently violated.

Of course, the president has

defended his administration

The only way he knows how.

If we can root out folks

who have leaked, they

will suffer consequences.

[audience laughing]

You look at a technical

perspective, the technologies

of maintaining privacy

Are actually running ahead of

the technologies that break it.

For example, encryption,

Which can maintain your privacy,

is running ahead of decryption.

[narrator] but what if there

was a way to store information

until it could be decrypted?

U.S. Intelligence officials

will soon be allowed to keep

information on u.S. Citizens

Much longer than they used to,

even if those citizens have

no known ties to terrorism.

Under new rules,

the government can store data

it gathers for five years.

That's up from the current

limit of six months.

General alexander,

if dick cheney were

elected president

And wanted to detain and

incessantly waterboard

Every american who sent

an email

Making fun of his

well-known hunting mishaps,

What I'd like to know is,

does the nsa have the

technological capacity

To identify those

cheney-bashers

Based upon the content

of their emails?

The-- in the United States,

we would have to go through

An fbi process, a warrant,

To get that and serve it to

somebody to actually get it.

But you do have the capability

of doing that.

Not in the United States.

There are new questions

about the national security

agency's massive spy center

Under construction

in the desert of utah.

Once finished, it'll be

five times the size of

the u.S. Capitol building.

The nsa is not allowed

to spy on americans,

But now a whistleblower

has come forward, saying that

the agency is doing it anyway.

This massive agency that's

collecting a tremendous amount

of information every day

By satellites and tapping of

cell phones and data links

On your computer or

email links and so forth.

And then it has to store

it someplace,

And that's why

they built bluffdale.

It's gonna cost

two billion dollars.

It's being built in this area

on a military base

Outside of salt lake city

in bluffdale.

As I said, they had to actually

extend the boundary of the town

So it would fit into it.

And the whole purpose

of this is the centerpiece

Of this massive

eavesdropping complex,

This network that was

created after 9/11.

The reality of

information technology is

it progresses exponentially.

Only information technology.

Exponential growth

starts out very slow,

Looks like nothing's

happening, you're doubling

tiny little numbers,

And suddenly, it takes off,

and we've seen that with

paradigm after paradigm,

Like social networks

in recent times.

[narrator] in 1984, to store one

gigabyte of data cost $85,000.

By 2012,

it cost about five cents.

In the city of chungking,

there are about 500,000 cameras.

In 2012, the cost of permanently

recording a high-resolution

feed was $300 million.

By the year 2020, the projected

cost is less than $3 million.

[man] the u.K. Being

one of the cultures

that's introduced cameras

Most ubiquitously

and most quickly,

So far the population

seems fine with it.

If they weren't,

they know who to call.

All of which feed into

this control center housed

in a secret location.

And I can call up, in real time,

All instances where

a camera caught someone

wearing a red shirt.

This is the shape and

the size of a potentially

suspicious unattended package.

Many police departments set to

use controversial new devices

Capable of scanning

people's faces,

Then checking that information

against a criminal database.

When we're at war, when

you're protecting your society

Against people who want

to come in and kill civilians,

You have to be able

to defend what we're doing.

You have to be able

to defend our way of life,

And you have to put these

powers into somebody's hands.

[narrator] according to

the brookings institution,

This kind of pervasive

monitoring will provide what

amounts to a time machine,

Allowing authoritarian

governments to perform

retrospective surveillance.

For example, if

an anti-regime demonstrator

Previously unknown to

security services is arrested,

It will be possible

to go back in time

To scrutinize the demonstrator's

phone conversations,

Automobile travels, and

the people he or she met

In the months and even years

leading up to the arrest.

[chris soghoian]

the government is using the

existence of terms of service

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