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Be hard for a person to make sense of. applying computer algorithms to it to pull out information. you can see that would be useful for national security agency, for example. >> reporter: its a common practice, but one users were shocked to hear about when the leaked slides give a look at how far the nsa was able to go. >> the slides mention e-mail, photos, for example, you upload or took on your phone and were uploaded to, for example, apple servers. >> all of the companies mentioned denied gra...

Dont know. we keep finding out more information about what we dont know. it comes down to your data, your privacy and what you are sharing on a regular basis. we broke it down for you. check it out. >> what we learned is that there is a program. the program is basically designed to get information from silicon valley companies. >> reporter: tech companies like google, microsoft and facebook deny knowledge of prism run by the national security agency. according to classified documents on oh taned...

Astronomers or anyone else interested in finding e. tmplet. the scientists say their computer algorithms can identify odd patterns. >> i see a faint line her. report her findings and just maybe discover long lost signals from intelligent life beyond our galaxy. >> its so and -- its so tantalizing. >> reporter: you never know. thank you so much. well be right back.

youre going to look at show the massive damage in the small town of harveyville, kansas. thats destroyed homes and trees uprooted and power lines down as well. take a look at this. a twister captured on film by a storm chaser in kansas in missouri where two people died. joining me now is wendell edwards. hes live from branson, missouri. set the scene for us. how bad is the damage? >> reporter: you know, randi, its pretty bad. take a look at what is going on. this is a vitamin and healt...

Well, here with "popular mechanics" magazine, seth moore, takes through the story. what happened here? >> well, it seemed like hitchcocks "rear window" you have a body and rear window of what is going on. turns out it was not a dead girl, but a girl playing around with her friends and a single slice of life captured by the google cameras made it seem like it was a corpse. >> okay. google when they look at everything they blur out license plates and faces and that sort of thing, when they do that...

With a virtual entourage of themselves so who they are on tuesday may be different than thursday and that applies to all of us. >> what i find interesting and grounds for hope is the work that you are doing, youre actually using technology to try to do something about this phenomenon. tell us a bit more about what youre up too. >> the decline in civility on the internet has become one of the most universally understood challenges that we face. the question that we asked ourselves is can we use m...