sending the message to. and huge e-mail companies with millions of users do just that. with powerful computers they scan every word for clues to help them sell precisely targeted ads. if you write kayak in several messages soon you see ads for river trips. mention cars and you see models burning across the desktop. google attorneys cited a supreme court decision stating users should have no legitimate expectation of privacy. so in terms of mining data. these services are honey pots. reporter: mccarthy argues we should all seek out more obscure providers. or better yet he says use an e-mail program that lives in your computer by passing the middle man. and he says we should all start looking at encryption software
for any other reason and the other program that s been in the news, the e-mail program, doesn t apply to americans a at all as president obama explained. congressman ellison? the thing is is i believe congress comes back together to review the state of the law all the time. this is an occasion where we should do that. we should come back together and say, look, do we really need to be spreading the net quite this wide. it is rather wide. it is disturbing to a lot of people and, quite frankly, i worry about not just invasions of privacy, but how many leads are we following where there s just really nothing there? the fact is the tsarnaev brothers were known to be a problem. there were facts that would lead law enforcement to them. how many people are caught up in this thing who really aren t in that category at all. go ahead. i think the program i think we should review it, too, i agree with you, keith. i also think we should review other laws and consider stricter
or your credit card. oh, they just want me to logon and check something. okay. you enter your username and pass ward but you re not really on your bank s site. you re on a site that looks just like it. but it s a fake. so if you get an e-mail like that. the best thing to do, and this takes a little bit of extra time, and unfortunately that s sort of the security environment we re living in. don t click on a link in your e-mail program. open up your web browser, type in city bank, bank of america, ebay, facebook, whatever it is and logon directly from that so you know you re going directly to the website. you re not going to get misdirected along the way. we talked about facebook that says check to see who s looking at your profile. that s who they used to get a lot of people. if you look at something on facebook and a lot of apps want to have permission to access your facebook profile, and you usually say yes. if something looks a little funky, that could be someone wanting to
here are some stories to watch today on abc news. heart specialists meeting in chicago today released new recommendations on salt consumption. they say if teens cut salt intake by 3,000 milligrams a day they could significantly cut risks of heart problems as adults. retail sales figures from last month are released today, it s an important gauge of the economy. facebook s new e-mail program could be unveiled today. analysts predict the web mail service could pose a threat to google s gmail. a wonderful homecoming tale sure to make your heart dance. earlier this month the american ballet theatre gives its first performance in cuba in decades. it is significant for many reasons. for one dancer it meant the world. jim sciutto has more from havana. reporter: the american
following breaking news because you have got to change what you re going to say in the next segment, next segment, then try to put those e-mails, put your e-mail program so that it checks for new e-mail every half hour or every hour instead of every minute. 50 e-mails a day, even if they re e-mails you have to respond to is a lot. what you need to do is automate that system some way. it s sort of like a closet organizer you need. you should see our closets, it s not much beter. one of my favorite phrases i ve heard is i was just going to say the start over issue. one thing i ve heard is to just declare at some point you have to declare e-mail bankruptcy, you just zero it out and start over. frankly, at what point do you just make that decision? well, i think you re at that point, chuck. i think one thing i do is i