CHARLES: SHORT TIME AGO DIRECTOR
OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ISSUING
A STERN WARNING TO MEDIA OUTLETS
BE AWARE OF EFFORTS BY FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS TO PLACE PROPAGANDA
NEWS STORIES HERE AT HOME.
TAKE A LISTEN.
>> RESPONSIBILITY DOESN'T STOP
WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
WE ALSO NEED THE PRIVATE SECTOR
AND MEDIA OUTLETS TO STEP UP AND
TAKE GREATER RESPONSIBILITY
BECAUSE THIS THIS, A NATIONAL
INTEREST, THIS IS A NATIONAL
INTEREST THAT DEMANDS A RESPONSE
FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND
THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
CHARLES: LISA GASH -- GARBER IS
A PRIVATE SECURITY EXPERT AND
JOINS US RIGHT NOW.
DAN COATS, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT
MEDIA OUTLETS, INCLUDES NEW
MEDIA.
HAS TO, GOT TO INCLUDE TWITTER,
GOT TO INCLUDE FACEBOOK AND
THOSE ENTITIES AS WELL.
THERE IS MORAL OBLIGATION
SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS.
AT SOME POINT THERE WILL A LEGAL
OBLIGATION.
HOW DO YOU SEE IT PLAYING OUT?
>> DAN COATS SUMMED UP THE
RESPONSIBILITY THAT THE
GOVERNMENT SEES FOR GLOBAL MEDIA
PLATFORMS THAT ALLOW FOR
COMMUNICATION.
THE PART OF THE ISSUE, PRIVATE
COMPANIES LIKE TWITTER,
FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, ALLOW
COMMUNICATIONS FROM COMMUNITIES
THAT ARE TRYING TO MAINTAIN
PRIVACY LIKE TERRORISTS AND
PEOPLE HARBORING MENACING
THOUGHTS AND TRYING TO CEMENT
ALL THESE PROBLEMS FOR THE
AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND AMERICAN
PUBLIC.
THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T
NECESSARILY HAVE ACCESS TO THAT.
CHARLES: THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T
HAVE ACCESS TO IT.
MEANTIME, YOU KNOW, LAST WEEK
ANOTHER WAVE OF PEOPLE ON
TWITTER, CONSERVATIVES LOSING
THEIR FOLLOWERS AND THEY WEREN'T
BOTS.
THEY WERE AUNT MAY, IT WAS HER
TWITTER HANDLE.
ONLY HAD PEOPLE WAKING UP WITH
100 FOLLOWERS, HAD 200 THE NIGHT
BEFORE.
FOR SOME REASON THEY SEEM TO BE
ON TOP OF THIS STUFF, FACEBOOK,
TWITTER, THEY SEEM TO BE ABLE TO
POLICE POLITICAL SPEAK THEY
THINK IS INAPPROPRIATE BUT
UNABLE EFFECTIVELY POLICE
EFFORTS OF THOSE WHO ARE TRYING
TO ROIL OUR COUNTRY.
>> IT IS SO FRUSTRATING.
EVEN MARK ZUCKERBERG WHO IS
CONTINUALLY ASKED WHERE ARE YOU
GOING TO DRAW THE LINE FOR
POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES, TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT FOLLOWER ISSUES
AND WHERE WILL YOU FIGURE OUT
THE FAKE NEWS?
WHERE WILL YOU FIGURE OUT, WHERE
WILL YOU DRAW THE LINE FOR THESE
CONTROVERSY HE CONTINUALLY SAYS
I'M CEO BUT SHOULDN'T BE MY
RESPONSIBILITY.
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT?
THE GOVERNMENT WILL STEP IN AND
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIGHLY
OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND
TACTICS THESE PRIVATE COMPANIES
ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO, AND SAY,
OKAY, ZUCKERBERG SHOULD NOT BE
THE MAN IN CHARGE OF DETERMINING
WHOSE FOLLOWERS GET TAKEN DOWN
AND WHAT TERRORISTS GROUPS ARE
ALLOWED TO FOMENT PROBLEMS ON
PLATFORM.
CHARLES: INTERESTING THEY BACK
AWAY FROM THE RESPONSIBILITY BUT
AT THE SAME TIME THEY HAVE
INSATIABLE APPETITE TO KNOW
EVERYTHING ABOUT US AND COLLECT
DATA.
A GREAT STORY CAME OUT.
APPARENTLY WITH FACEBOOK, IN
THEIR NEWPORT TALL, IN-HOME
VIDEO SYSTEM.
INITIALLY THEY TOLL FOLKS AT
THERE WAS NO DATA COLLECTION
THROUGH THIS PORTAL.
THEN THEY KIND OF CHANGED THEIR
MINE.
THERE IS NO NECESSARILY DATA
COLLECTION BUT THE PORTAL CAN
TARGET YOU WITH ADS AND OTHER
FACEBOOK OWNED PROPERTIES MUCH
IN OTHER WORDS WE DO GET
INFORMATION, HOW COME THEY CAN'T
BE STRAIGHT WITH US?
IT MAKES YOU WONDER ARE THESE
THINGS UBIQUITOUS, THE SYSTEM
WILL BE ON OUR HOME, AND AN
ALEXA ON TOP OF THE
REFRIGERATOR, THE IDEA THEY'RE
TAKING ALL THIS INFORMATION
AGAINST OUR WILL, PERHAPS
SELLING IT, CERTAINLY USING IT
TO SELL US THINGS, SOMEWHERE WE
HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE.
>> THAT'S TRUE.
THIS FALLS UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF
INTERNET OF THINGS, ANY
DIGITIZED DEVICE CONNECTS TO THE
INTERNET, GOOGLE'S HOME, AMAZON
ECHO AND THE FACEBOOK PORTAL.
PART OF THE PROBLEM NOT ONLY
FACEBOOK CHANGING ITS PUBLIC
STATEMENT OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS
OVER WHAT KIND OF DATA THEY
COLLECT, YES, YOU WON'T SEE ADS
ON THE PORTAL DEVICE WHICH IS A
VIDEOCONFERENCE DEVICE, BUT