paula deen is stepping back into the spotlight. she made her first appearance since june. after a standing ovation, deen thanked the texas foodies, and there were tears of joy. she admitted to using the n word in the past. when apple announced a fingerprint scanner as a security teacher, people had a lot of questions. of course you could understand that. and people wondered if it s safe from hackers. yeah, and if your fingerprints will be scored in a government database. the id censor automatically unlocks your phone, and you can use it to authorize purchases
it s people who want to exploit your personal data for their own gain. either steal your identity or get drug under your name. how they do it is shockingly simple. they start on google and put in key words like password, login, health. they brings them to the home page of thousands of web sites for hospitals and doctors offices across the country. then they go to a government database which tells them what the short comings of these web sites are. how they can get in the front door and steal the information. it s open to the public, you can get on it any time. national verification web site. martha: what can you do to stop this? as an individual it s difficult to stop. as a first step you might want to look at your healthcare records each and every year. scan them. go to your doctor s office and look for them. see if the information they have
the guardian a couple of days ago is a program in which the government collects information about every single phone call. domestic or international that an american makes. not the content of the call. but who you called. the duration of the call, where you were when you maded call, all of that goes into a government database. that s really unprecedented. i don t know of any other country that s ever subjected its own citizens it that kind of surveillance. in part because they don t have the technology. in part because other democratic knts have recognized there theres s real problems and dangers of investing that kind of power into a government. let me play another part of what the president said about the stories that have been reported over the last 48 hours. i want to be very clear. hype that we ve been hearing over the last day or so. nobody is listening to the content of people s phone calls. this program by the way, is
than all predecessors combined. bradley manning on trial by a government that is quite understandably chilled by imagining a world without secrets, terrified of the thought that in this century the answer to the question, can you keep a secret, is no. no, you can t. the government is the world over is having a harder and harder time keeping secrets from citizens. in the strange new world, citizens too are having a harder and harder time keeping their secrets from their government. that brings me to the other big story out of washington. the supreme court ruled in a 5-4 decision that people who are arrested, not convicted, but arrested as suspects in certain crimes, can be forced to take a cotton swab in their mouths, to give up a dna sample that can then be stored in a government database. when you think about the secrets you hold as a person and a citizen, your dna may not be at the top of your mind, but it is the ultimate secret. it is your biological essence. what diseases you might
and vehicle a harder and harder time keeping secrets from citizens. in the strange new world, citizens too are having a harder and harder time keeping their secrets from their government. that brings me to the other big story out of washington. the supreme court ruled in a 5-4 decision that people who are arrested, not convicted, but arrested can be forced to take a cotton swab and give up a dna sample that can be stored in a government database. when you think about the secrets you hold as a person and a citizen, your dna may not be at the top of your mind, but it is the ultimate secret. it is your biological essence. what diseases you might be prone to and where you come from. quite simply, who you are. the court decided that that information can be taken without your consent and kept in a database. all of the precautions taken