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Considerable debate about whether that was true or not. >> americans know now what communications are being stored in a data base and thats huge. >> i mentioned reid hastings at the white house. there were ceos there to say we need to have new limits on this surveillance technology. do you see that actually happening? >> to a certain degree they are definitely going to use their lobbying power to do that. its not that they care about privacy. they dont. >> they want to profit. >> the big thing i...

It really places the bandanna at the murder scene. >> so the next step was to work with the texas state crime lab to get it entered into the database to see if it matched any convicted offenders or unsolved crimes. fortunately now there is a vast database of dna profiles from convicted offenders and unsolved crimes called codis. which is a national database run by the fbi that all states participate in. and any public crime lab can take a dna file, put it essentially in this big computer in the ...

Im fredricka whitfield. fareed zakaria "gps" continues right now. imagine trying to identify every single person in a nation of more than 1.2 billion people. if you cataloged one person every second, the effort would take 38 years. sounds crazy? well, in 2010, indias government began just such an effort, hoping to create the largest personal database in human history. in the waning hours of a hot afternoon in northeast india, noshad waits patiently in a dimly lit room full of laptop computers....

Last week who was focusing more on the privacy angle. >> what does this do to the nsas data base? they have been collecting all of this information on phone calls and internet usage. >> hundreds of millions of pieces of data that they are collecting. the program is continuing, even the judge last week, he basically kept the program running while the government has time to appeal. the judge in this ruling today is going to allow obviously the aclu which brought the lawsuit to appeal and that will...

Data that might be the thing that breaks the camels back and we dont find out about the attack. theres an understandable temptation in the intelligence side if you can collect it to collect it. one of the themes of our report is that just because you can do it that doesnt mean you should. and so we tried to figure out some ways to really keep the key things going and to make sure that happens, but this particular database we did not find essential. >> so in broad terms, there are 48 recommendati...

By the same rules, we are also now all communicating with one another. >> this all happens through a statewide database. it provides a patients history of visits to the emergency departments in the last five years as well as other vital information. >> in some cases, it might even show care guidelines, like this particular physician has said no narcotics should be issued through the emergency department because theyre on a pain management contract. >> if something like this didnt exist, the scen...

>> there are other states with similar databases, but theyre not all connected. and an effort is well under way to try to create a national information exchange with the support of the pharmaceutical industry. >> were partnering with the national association of pharmaceutical boards on the creation of the interconnect program, which will be a national database so a prescribing physician can know what an individual patients history is. >> congress has considered creating a similar federal system ...

By some estimates, the nsas call data base contains more than a trillion records. on one, a federal judge ruled that the collection of meta data is unconstitutional. now, the panel handpicked says the white house should give up its massive data base. jim sciutto joining me now. >> reporter: the headline is accountability. that is what one panel member said to me, accountability to the public, the white house, and you can see that reflected in the 46 recommendations the panel made. they want cong...

I could find that lists all the information a data broker has access to. i think at this point, this is something that really needs to -- i guess, take the form of legislative action, much in the way we have seen with credit reporting agencies and that sort of thing. i think thats where its going, but right now, theres not much you can do. not much protection. federal law protects some of your medical records, but we know they have gotten access to some of that information. we know that your cre...

More breaking news tonight, a panel appointed by the white house to review the nsas controversial mass surveillance activities is calling for sweeping new limits on a range of activities. the legislation regarding the phone calls that americans make, setting off a huge outcry that hasnt let up. by some estimates, the nsas call data base contains more than a trillion records. on monday, a federal judge in washington ruled that the collection of meta data is unconstitutional. now, the panel handpi...