0 so, frank this is pretty innocuous, pediatric sall iine nasal mist. your credit card company knows you have a child, and the pharmacy has a record of you having a child. if i sent an e-mail, go get some gas, go to the pharmacy and pick something up, what can you learn about a person? you have been traced and tracked all along, consolidating is the big problem and scary part. a quick stop by the atm where my picture is taken and my bank records the transaction. and as i take off down the road, any number of traffic cameras record my route. frank, coming up to the toll booth here. what are we watching for? cameras, number one, taking pictures of your license plate. you have the pass, they have a record of where you are going. and where you came from. i finally arrive at the office. inside, i can hardly make a move that isn t recorded in some form. like most big companies, fox news used security cameras and warns us our online activity may be monitored, but it say personal
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
rereelection headquarters in chicago. carol davidson was director of integration and media targeting for the obama campaign. the hardcore analysts were in the room for multiple reasons. this was our like more top secret work so you don t want press coming by to like see what was on the screens of everyone and we actually during the election didn t even want people to know the group even exist. tech team worked its algo he algorithms. carol davidson figured out how to get the message to the specific voter and developed the optimizer showing what television shows the persuadables were watching and when. this information was sold by some of our cable companies. we were able to get the data from the vendor and in guest it into the system and pair that data to the voter file data. people find something creepy
institute into the reelection headquarters in chicago. carol davidson was director of immigration and media targeting for the obama campaign. they were there for multiple region sews it was more pop secret work. you don t want the press coming by to see what was on the screens. you don t want the people to know it even existed. they worked in algorithms to determine who the voters where in the battle ground states. they figured out how to get the message to their voters. she developed the optimizers to tell them what television shows they were watching and when. this information was sold by some of your table companies. we were able to get it into the system and to the voter file
rereelection headquarters in chicago. carol davidson was director of integration and media targeting for the obama campaign. the hardcore analysts were in the room for multiple reasons. this was our like more top secret work so you don t want press coming by to like see what was on the screens of everyone and we actually during the election didn t even want people to know the group even exist. tech team worked its algo he algorithms. carol davidson figured out how to get the message to the specific voter and developed the optimizer showing what television shows the persuadables were watching and when. this information was sold by some of our cable companies. we were able to get the data from the vendor and in guest it into the system and pair that data to the voter file data. people find something creepy