the send button your information is no longer your own. he says your frequent flyer program, movie account, book purchases, even some searches, can be tracked, stored and sometimes sold. i have a window into your soul. i know what you believe. i know what you think, and i know who your family is and know who your friends are. i know your politics. reporter: orkut.com says it has updated its policies and tools to find and remove fake profiles like the one of sarah downey s daughter and google says it gives customers the tools they need to protect the personal information. many of us could be more careful. in addition, some privacy experts would like to see standardized and simplified website privacy policies or even government restrictions on secondhand use of private information. steven rambam sees a lot of positives for having so much information on the internet and says the genie is already out of the bottle. ten years from now you re going to have a choice of getting used to m
twitter, more and more americans are making their private information public. put it together with public documents like newspaper accounts and property records and a portrait emerges. take supreme court justice antonin scalia. using free publicly available information on the internet, a fordham university law school class came up with 15 pages of information. including scalia s home address and phone number, even the movies and foods he likes. if we were willing to spend $100 for the project, we would have been able to acquire far more intrusive, far scarier information. reporter: private investigator rambam says anytime you hit the send button, your information is no longer your own. he says your frequent flier program, movie account, book purchases, even some searches can be tracked, stored and sometimes sold. i have a window into your soul. i know what you believe. i know what you think. i know who your family is. i know who your friends are. i know your politics.