And now it is time for john stossel. You have a facebook account . Do you post pictures on instagram or personal things on twitter . You probably do. Most americans now do with how we connect with friends. And i love facebook. This page helps me understand what you think, and you give me feedback that makes me smarter. I also have a personal Facebook Page that helps me stay in touch with friends, ranging volleyball games. My life is infinitely better because a facebook are you but there is a downside. Lots of private the, more than i realized before i research this. Recently a comedian freaked out random people by demonstrating how much he can learn about them. I wanted to see how easy it would be to get personal information from complete strangers. First he checked his application that showed him social media users near him. Then he checked sites like twitter and instagram to learn things about him. Is your name jessica . Yes. Are you doing . Did you just make that up . I understand my back i didnt call the police. Can you imagine a stranger coming up to you and hang, hello, im glad you enjoyed your florida trip. How are the kids . That would freak me out. And it freaks out eric, who is a web producer that writes about twitter, facebook and so on. The business of social media. It freaks me out, its the business of social media. We all want convenience or any other application that you download onto your smart phone. It makes everything easy. If you understand on one side, it will be easier and better on the other side. Your life is in private anymore. Its not everything thats only what i choose to post. Guess, but its also what you choose to be educated on. Like on the privacy settings area facebook knows when you are about to break up. When youre about to change your a relationship. Before you do. Facebook knows it. Duty status updates, with a very large sample of people, they have learned how to be able to tell when a relationship is breaking down on facebook. Do they say he is communicating with this person less and less, checking other people . Is not happy, and that is in our them and its that Something Like 94 of the time it is right. They know before my friends do. They are not telling people and to tell you the truth, what i do on the internet is almost the real world. Dont do it in the internet if you wont do it on the real world. But i do like my privacy. I like it, and i find that this book has facial recognition. There is eric at that party. Its not that i dont want everyone to know that i was there. But nor was i branding to anyone that i was there. I should be the one who gets that choice. So i think you just have to be careful. I think when you opt in, be careful what youre opting in for. People clearly are bothered by it. It is shown by the fact that that video got 3 million head. Absolutely. And the thing is the whole issue came to light, i believe, because of edwards noted. Everything about the nsa, its our own government. Everyone is watching everyone and their arnos egrets. Once you type in your keyboard, its public information. And as long as you accept that you can get a lot of convenience. Tonight theres a difference and i made a deal with facebook when i signed up and i didnt make a deal with the nsa. Thats right, the deals that you are making, when he checked the box you are signing up for a lot more than that. Or apple agreement includes a clause that prohibits you from developing nuclear warfare. Not only the social media websites that know lots about it, but they made money selling what they know about it. So that every time you use the internet you have to agree to what they call terms and conditions. Because they are and less. Few people read them. In Grand Central station i found one guy who said he did. You have seen the terms and conditions . Yes. You ever read. . I do. Because i want to know what im agreeing to. Everyone signs because you want to use the website. And nobody reads the fine print. You will find this kind of language, interest, facebook, anything that people consider free. You guys have helped me. If you read them, you click it, so what. The terms and conditions are designed not to be a part of this. They basically take away the constitution and terms and conditions and say. We require some to ask what they have in store. 1222 pages. Yet its easy for facebook to sit through that information and Learn Private things about you. Within seconds he find information and within a couple of minutes you can figure out and all of these information are really easy to find. In my information, lets say i find this. What you gain is here. You can build a detailed profile about someone. This goes beyond any organization and this is something that the government have wanted for a very long time in which facebook does as well. At least with facebook or instagram, if i dont like what they are doing, i can say that you are selling this and im not going to do business with you. They pulled out of instagram and they change the policy. And so we have power with these businesses. Overall, i think its pretty frightening how much our privacy is invaded and we dont know it. A couple of years ago facebook changed its privacy settings. Thats right, they went from allowing users to have their settings to turning all of this on, saying that we are sharing this with the entire world. So you actually have to proactively go when and that is actually if you can figure it out. Its not very easy. Mark zuckerberg was asked about it. We decided that this would be the social norm now. Facebook was once private information and now it is totally public information. And you didnt hear about people leaving facebook. This is the reason that we did this. To bring awareness to these issues. Because we are busy people and we also have a desire to connect. In exchange for that we really dont want to take the time to think about the ramifications for it we just wanted to work. As a father out there that lose the president ial race because of something that happened he is going to give it away. I dont think we will blame five girls, but when youre old, definitely. People post very intimate things. Yes, if you think about a Google Search engine, what you share with google is probably more personal than what you write in a diary. Want young people sure is pretty intimate. They slept with, how they felt about it. Including facebook responding with emails. So he chased zuckerberg down so what was your point in doing this . Well, you know, facebook, time and time again has told us that privacy is dead, we are pushing a social norm. But the reality is that privacy is not dead and facebook and all of the social Media Companies need for privacy to be dead because that is what a line their Business Models. Its free and they have to make money by selling at. Their different Business Models out there. Different ways in which we can share the dont involve the company aggregating every single piece of information about it. We are going to enter list. We need to build systems with privacy at the forefront. The people have to understand why this matters. Onto the next generation of privacy invading technology. Google class. Everything have you seen these . Sometimes they have lenses that look like real glasses are a area but this is the new technology. It lets you learn more about what you are looking at and do other things as well. I can go like this. Okay, and take your picture. I dont like it. If you like that is too much exposure. And i dont know how i feel about that. Its a little scary. It definitely freaks me out the you could know my name before i even talk to your. To the government do something to protect you . I think it will eventually have to regulate somehow. You think people could go on with these glass holds . Yes. Google actually posted a note saying that if you use google class, dont be a glass hole. And so that is how it should work. Google is saying be reasonable. Yes, be reasonable, it captures absolutely everything and completely invades this. I dont know how you can be reasonable. I think it will just get better and we will just get more intrusive. To keep this conversation going, use the privacy hash tag. Let people know what you think. Coming up, a new way for government and others to spy on us. Next, how cooks can use the well its official. Xfinity watchathon week was the biggest week in television history. But just when you thought it was over. What now . With xfinity on demand you can always watch the latest episodes of tvs hottest shows. Good news. Like hannibal. Chicago fire. And bates motel. The day after they air. Xfinity on demand. All the latest episodes. All included with your service. Its like hifiving your eyeballs. Xfinity. The future of awesome. They see your every move. These are the books that sneak into our Computers Read scarlet johansson had some photos of herself in her computer. A hacker managed to grab them and sent them to gossip websites. Jayz, kim kardashian, credit card numbers posted on a russian website. So how do the crooks get this information. We have a firewall set up, and when you say antivirus, i think of them now where things and now it is keep the crooks away. So if you have proper security in place. It is going to keep the bad guys out, along with making sure that the consumers are engaged in the right behavior and not the wrong behavior. It would invite an attack. Were going to get more into what we can do to protect ourselves shortly. Lets talk about what gets taken from people. Advisor looking for the Social Security number on your devices, so they can use to open up new accounts under your name and fake accounts and so on. And youre probably exaggerating the threat. The bad guy is the puppeteer. Generally these people are losing thousands of dollars. Consumers have todays report any fraud. They have 60 days to report that nine out of 10 consumers dont even pay attention. And i was able to buy 30 devices within a 30mile radius of my home. Laptops, desktops, i rose and ipods. I thought a race means a raise . Because of the way the technology is built, they have these partition and closets and so bad guys know how to find now. If you ignore fishing. Every time you see an email, they say click this link or update your information, generally that is designed to trick you or to screw you. If i get an email from my bank saying that your statement is ready, click on this link. John so if you use a Wireless Network you have to have encryption. Airports, hotels come out in the open, i can be your data is transmitted through the air. I do send out emails, i dont give out my credit card numbers that way. The operating system is susceptible to injections of codewarrior back i can implant a virus on your machine. Finally changing the password. We all tend to use the same kind of password. If one account gets hacked, all of those can get hacked. More secure going to be. If you throw your hands up in the air, then you are next on the list. Good advice. Coming up and also at of strangers take our picture. Should we care . Two i dont [ male announcer ] some come here to build something smarter. Some come here to build something stronger. Others come to build something faster. Something safer. Something greener. Something the whole world can share. People come to boeing to do many different things. But its always about the very thing we do best. But its always about the very thing we do best. Hello. Shopping for a used car with the right history . Yeah. I dont want one thats had a big wreck. Oh, our team tracks millions of accidents. Yeah, doug to carfax. I got an accident report on vin 1dc. Moles . They dig up the facts. Naturally. Let carfax® help you find the right used car with the right history. I like it. Start shopping now at carfax. Com. You like the gps . I think its helpful. You know it means they know who you are. Whos they . The police, the government. Its okay, nothing to hide. John how i feel, what if youre seeing a shrink and dont want people to know, or you just dont want government or phone company to always know where you are. Too bad, says tech reporter Kurt Knutsson who calls himself cyberguy, big brother is here. Big brother has been chomping at heels and privacy for years now. John they know where i am, so what . I should be at least advised when my privacy is being invaded. I always knew they could findny through my blackberry or iphone, and the government says this will prevent accidents or help determine who was at fault in the accident. This is a good thing, and they have plenty of examples, the crash in florida. The gps tracker device shows it was going 114 miles per hour, seconds before it killed two people. That was used to convict the driver of manslaughter. Its being used in a whole bunch of ways against you, me, and the rest of the world in civil lawsuits. Gm started these in the 90s. And we want to check out the quality of our vehicles and it started from there, but there really are no rules, no boundaries and technology has evolved to where now these recorders, about the size of two decks of cards are in about 96 of every automobile thats out on the market right now. Play it on tv, theyll know. Maybe that gets shared with somebody else, thats prime time to hit his house and get the nice silver that his grandma gave him. Its all sorts of opportunities are opening up when we have no ability to rein in our own privacy and to say nothing about the fact that you go to somebodys house right now to visit. Your gps tracker may take you there and may show that youre there. What if that information is shared with other friends who should have been invited to the house at the same time, and you find yourself explaining, im sorry, yes, you werent included in that lovely dinner. John the government wants the trackers mandatory in all cars. Theyre already in more than 90 . Companies use them to keep track of employees. Wall street journal reports one Company Found one worker was seeing a woman during the day. Another admitted he was blowing off work. They fired him but caught him with the trackers. They do. This may have cost savings for companies that decide to put these in the vehicle. I assume fox can legally track me by knowing where i am by my phone, i dont know if they do. Maybe they do. John if somebody say politically in the infrastructure of your Company Wants to go after you because they dont like thehade of your mustache, they can start using this technology and say, you know what, john was over here and should have been over there, lets put that one down and another one down. John we agree to that when we get paid by the company where. We dont agree is schools have been caught tracking students. With cameras on laptops. John you may not know this. Your laptop, of course, has the camera, and they sometimes, the police or the school in this case can remotely turn the camera on without your knowledge. The bells should be ringing on this one. Virtually every device now that were buying has a camera built into it. Be hacked and has been readily been proved to show photographs of people who never turn the camera on. John i put a piece of tape over the camera lens. You are smart. Youre smart. Lets move to something more creepy, the personal drone, the military uses drones and the police but now anyone can buy one. Theres a sales pitch for the phantom 2 vision. Up in the air, take a picture of your family sitting on the beach while on vacation in hawaii and sure enough, imagine all the possibilities you can caption out. Think about how you view. This think about your next vacation and youll be shooting photos from a whole new perspective. Or be the creepy neighbor who has no respect for your privacy. They buy one of these on amazon and load it up with High Definition video. It gets cheaper over time. Its a phenomenal device for gathering the shots. You want to ban it . I dont want the government telling me where i can and cannot fly this device for the sake of privacy because i believe i have my own discretion, and at the same time, the faa has chimed in on this one saying, you may not use these for commercial uses. Well, whats a commercial use . And is that a rule or is this some memo out of faa. John well have to see how that sorts out. Thank you, Kurt Knutsson, coming up, would you want to do one thing that could protect you from internet spot snungs of going off the grid, going off internet connections, facebook . Thats like going off the planet . John i noticed Something Weird the other day. I was looking at several websites, and on the right of the screen were ads for libertarian book, even obscure libertarian books. I thought wow, has libertarianism gotten so popular that advertisers run ads everywhere, how can they afford that . And i realize no, theyre not advertising everywhere, theyre just advertising to me. They knew i was interested in liberty. Theyre tracking what i do on the web so should we worry about that . Kate kaye reports on privacy and Data Collection for advertising age. So they know what we do . Well, they know in a very general manner what we do. Youve shared content that, articles about libertarian issues. John are they selling that to a bookstore . Theyre allowing access to the book publisher through countless middle men online to run ads that target people who like libertarian issues. John and they dont just know what i might buy. There was the story in forbes, the store figured out the teen was pregnant before her father did. They outed her. John explain that. So target, like pretty much any other big retailer, they track what you buy, right . So what target did, they determined pregnant women buy a lot of moisturizer during a certain trimester and other products, so the teenager ended up in that pool of people who would get, you know, in the mail a bunch of coupons for whatever the moisturizer was or the other products that pregnant women buy. John and mailed her the coupons, and her father asked, why are you getting these . The story that typifies how marketers use information and how much information theyre collecting on us. John they know before you may even know, said a guy in the previous segment about who youre going to break up with. Maybe. John what otherata collection do people not know about . Companies can track us by proxy through phones, track where were going. Our locations. So we might be in, you know, a department store, or in a restaurant, and they can track whether or not we lingered in front of a shoe display for a few minutes. John but they could just see that. Theyre in the store. Its a lot easier for them to track patterns of especially with huge numbers o people coming into a store over, say, weeks or a month, they can, they can if they have it digitized, they can analyze it readil