today we might wonder what hath samuel morse without? practically all of us generate with computers, phones and other devices an almost continuous trail of electronic data. that information can be stored 40 knows where are analyzed by who knows whom for who knows what purpose. in recent days we learned how our government is tapping into a lot of that data phone records, e-mails and web postings often provided by private internet companies and individual yes feeds like in the wake of the boston marathon bombing. should i be creeped out or comforted? this hour we will try to sort some out for you. we begin with a visit to my home in atlanta. nice to meet you. great to meet you, too. come on in. in a prior life, frank ahern of new york stay made a living as a skip tracer. a sort of private investigator who tracks down people who have skipped town and don t want to be found. he would use the proverbial paper trail which back in the day was literally made of paper. phone b
0 nice to meet you. great to meet you, too. come on in. in a prior life, frank ahern of new york stay made a living as a skip tracer. a sort of private investigator who tracks down people who have skipped town and don t want to be found. he would use the proverbial paper trail which back in the day was literally made of paper. phone bills. credit cards, receipts and so on. he agreed to come to my home out atlanta to follow me around to show how today s paperless paper trail makes it almost impossible to hide. so, are frank, just woke up. had a cup of coffee. pull out the laptop. the data gathering where does that begin? the about minute you turn it on. you are letting your ip company know that you are there and ready to rock. the ip knows about us. google knows about us. yahoo knows about us. the e-mail company knows about us. i will send an e-mail to a lawn is service company. inokay with us. the credit card championship knows you have a child and the pharmacy as wel
today we might wonder what hath samuel morse without? practically all of us generate with computers, phones and other devices an almost continuous trail of electronic data. that information can be stored 40 knows where are analyzed by who knows whom for who knows what purpose. in recent days we learned how our government is tapping into a lot of that data phone records, e-mails and web postings often provided by private internet companies and individual yes feeds like in the wake of the boston marathon bombing. should i be creeped out or comforted? this hour we will try to sort some out for you. we begin with a visit to my home in atlanta. nice to meet you. great to meet you, too. come on in. in a prior life, frank ahern of new york stay made a living as a skip tracer. a sort of private investigator who tracks down people who have skipped town and don t want to be found. he would use the proverbial paper trail which back in the day was literally made of paper. phone b
today we might wonder what hath samuel morse without? practically all of us generate with computers, phones and other devices an almost continuous trail of electronic data. that information can be stored 40 knows where are analyzed by who knows whom for who knows what purpose. in recent days we learned how our government is tapping into a lot of that data phone records, e-mails and web postings often provided by private internet companies and individual yes feeds like in the wake of the boston marathon bombing. should i be creeped out or comforted? this hour we will try to sort some out for you. we begin with a visit to my home in atlanta. nice to meet you. great to meet you, too. come on in. in a prior life, frank ahern of new york stay made a living as a skip tracer. a sort of private investigator who tracks down people who have skipped town and don t want to be found. he would use the proverbial paper trail which back in the day was literally made of paper. phone b
to see what was on the screens of everyone. during the elections we didn t want people to know the group existed. reporter: the president s tech team worked algorithms to determine who the voters were. carol davidson figured out how to get the obama message to those voters. she developed something called the optimizer which showed her what television shows the persuaders were watching and when. a lot of people find this creepy. at the end of the day you get e-mails or mail sent to your house all the time but you didn t know the person that sent it to you. i can say this is barack obama, that might be jarring. so is it just difference or really a concern about invading your life? the democrats have a big advantage on this.