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Platforms could throw an election by nudging the right kind of people to go vote in those few swing states. >> is she overstating the situation? >> no, i more or less agree to that. one, there wasnt anything unusual about the study. so in some sense its relieving to see that people werent aware and they do care, but i hope the takeaway message is not, look, facebook is one bad actor, theyll change their terms of use, problem solved. the broader issue is do we need new legislation to protect cons...

Track. its software that uses travellers own wi-fi on their smart devices. it tracks the traffic flow so that tsa can say well theres a congested traffic in this lane and they need to open additional security lane. >> can it took at my text messages? >> luckily not. consumer data will be safe and not actually looking at any of that. just tracking the wi-fi. >> what about this other idea. we heard this a little bit over the years about more and more airports getting rid of the tsa completely and ...

Because they knew people wouldnt sign up. martha: they say this is all hysteria, no breaches, no complaints, nothing. >> not that we know of. i doubt if anybody has successfully harvested anybodys data they sent out a press release exclaiming they have harvested this data and quite frankly given the failures in the past on accountability with this and other administrations, can we even be certain that no one has hid from us or kept from us for now other evidence? this is, this stuff is only comi...

Story or issue you think i should take off-the-record, go to gretawire.com and tell us about it. now one of the breaches of consumer data ever. retailer target with almost 2,000 stores nationwide is warning everyone: the credit and debit card account of 40 million customers may be at risk. russ reader joins us with more. what happened at target? >> how are you doing, greta? >> im very well. >> so, big issues we all know that there is a risk of your credit card information being stolen but usuall...

Companies that have a huge pile of consumer data on you and me, axiom, data logic and epsilon. they have dossiers from everything from income levels to what we buy, even social security numbers. facebook will match all that data to your fprofile and use that to create better target groups for its ads. until now, they could only base ads on information users provided. but thats all changing now. facebook is quick to point out that all of the data is anonymous, that advertisers, they will never kn...

Going to romney and on the final days swung back to his side. >> alex, how much credit do you give to the obama ground here in sn if it did create a two point swing, that is something that can be copied elsewhere. >> i agree with you to a point. one, i give the obama ground game a huge amount of credit. i think sasha eisenberg best describes that as the victory lap. which is beyond anything that modern political campaigns have seen. and to the degree that fortune 500 companies are asking about c...

Go. had second thoughts, but werent going to romney and on the final days swung back to his side. >> alex, how much credit do you give to the obama ground here in sn if it did create a two point swing, that is something that can be copied elsewhere. >> i agree with you to a point. one, i give the obama ground game a huge amount of credit. i think sasha eyesenburg best describes that as the victory lap. which is beyond anything that modern political campaigns have seen. and to the degre that fort...

Program in june and repeated it plans to keep interest rates low for an extended period. all that led the three majors to 2011 highs. with the nasdaq closing at a ten-year high. the russell 2000 index of smaller companies closed at an all-time high. strong earnings helped with boeing, whirlpool and wellpoint moving higher. after the bell, starbucks fell after warning rising fuel and dairy costs will hurt earnings. a class-action lawsuit has been filed against sony after the hacking of playst...

The taxi actually washed away shortly after the girls were rescued. floods are often a problem during colombias rainy season that lasts through october. wow. lets move now to the economic headlines of this day in the state of our countrys fiscal health from the stock market to the supermarket. and vera gibbons is joining me with more details on that. >> good morning, alex. >> stocks we know are down pretty sharply for the week. >> well, there was really nothing to lift the spirits of investors...

Someone took a flame to her son and burned him. >> it cant even be described as a rash. it looked like burns on his bottom. it was blistered and bleeding. the worst ive ever seen. >> the evidence that weve seen so far suggesting that pampers with dry max is not causing any difference in the experience that pampers are having with diaper rash, period. the challenge is that when you introduce a new product like pampers with dry max, parents see rash and they say i have a new product, maybe thats t...