Who decides when your privacy matters?

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]what they're doing with 702, and a lot of this mass spying today where they say, "Well, our targets are people abroad." So, everybody else who's just swept up in that is just, you know, kind of unintentionally collected, so it shouldn't matter. Of course, there's a problem with that.

[00:00:18]First of all, our privacy shouldn't depend on the government's goodwill about who its targets are. [laughter] Uh and it also includes a whole lot of people as it as it turns out, like millions.

[00:00:31]Um and then, you know, it's not just like, you know, Carmela Soprano's calls get collected along with Tony's, right? This is millions and millions of people who are incidentally collected under the government's argument. And also, of course, now under 702, I'm flashing forward a little bit, we know that the FBI has access to this material for what it, you know, for its own purposes. So, it's not going to only be used in those narrow terrorist target situations, either.