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Mibatta -- data mining. one house member said there will be legislation aimed at building confidence in the programs. >> thank you. more subpoenas coming from house republicans to the state department over benghazi. oversight committee chairman issa is demanding documents relating to the review of what happened when four americans were killed. issa says the state department has ignored requests for months. virginia republican congressman says tomorrow he will resubmit all of the questions he h...

If you take that little red book into the supreme court, you will lose because accumulation of supreme court information says it is not unreasonable to gather that data. >> they originally got it. bush administration originally got the ability to do that under the patriot act and they made sure that at least one of the parties that they were data mining wasted states. >> you cannot search. you dont even have a name. all you have is a number. you cant get a name without going back to the court. t...

Welcome back. just when you thought it was safe to make a call or send an e-mail in the after math of the nsa scandal two new personal privacy issues sprung up. did you know cops are data mining you. video cameras are taping license plates and storing the data seeing where you go, who you are visiting. be aware cheating wives or sobriity promisers. when you park your car at the airport, you know the tsa agents? they can break into your car and search it without your consent. this is america and ...

Following your gps device, it doesnt need a warrant to do so. the reason it doesnt need a warrant to do so is twofold. the license plate is public so the government takes the position you have no right to privacy and you a dont expect deprive so i your license plate. the other reason the government has not introduced evidence in court in prosecuting someone for photographs of these cars son has challenged it of. -- no one has challenged it. its called suspicion. something the police can articula...

Dennis michael lynch. let me see if i have this straight. our government will get all of our phone records, they are going to have data mining of google, yahoo! microsoft, facebook, but they are not going to secure the border? and you have a guy like that making a threat like that? >> you see in the film, sean, how i demonstrate that you can pull anthrax into the state of arizona like that. you saw how it is that you could bomb an amtrak train in my film. i worked alongside the border patrol age...

Dennis michael lynch. let me see if i have this straight. our government will get all of our phone records, they are going to have data mining of google, yahoo! microsoft, facebook, but they are not going to secure the border? and you have a guy like that making a threat like that? >> you see in the film, sean, how i demonstrate that you can pull anthrax into the state of arizona like that. you saw how it is that you could bomb an amtrak train in my film. i worked alongside the border patrol age...

>> reporter: a big part deals with scanning the web and analyzing data. not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of worlds electronic communications, analyze fragments of troubling data and connect the dots before a threat materializes and they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. what do you think would surprise people the most about data mining? what dont they know? >> how clumsy it is. how much works goes into even getting a simple find. >> reporter: the...

Not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of all of the worlds electronic communications and isolate the fragments of troubling data and then connect the dots before a threat materializes. and recent revealations show they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. >> what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what dont they know? >> i think how clumsy it is and how much work goes into getting even the simplest conclusions out of the date. i t...

Does take the stand. >>gretchen: thank you. lets go back to the guys on the curvy couch. >>brian: want to sound like a boss at your next meeting? there is a trick to it. according to a brand-new scientific study, a few simple word will turn around a meeting and make you more powerful than you actually are. what are those words? >>clayton: cynthia rudin is an associate professor of statistics at m.i.t. sloan school of management. how did you guys do this study? >> the study is about more than per...

Everyones data from left, right and center. it sounded to a lot of folks like the kind of data mining that treats everyone in america as a potential terrorist suspect. so congress stepped in and used the 2004 defense appropriations bill to defund total information awareness. but that was not the end of the story. because allowing a program thats being rejected by the american citizenry to die off is not the only option when you happen to be working on surveillance. option number two is just doin...