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Program as it is with the government holding those billions of records not private companies because he says hes not sure the private companies are up to it. >> well i think youre going to have a debate in the congress house and senate on this. i know judiciary is in the process of marking there, fisa reform and patriot act authorization, well see what happens through the amendment. process. when i was doing this in my own practice we had no problem getting information for the private phone carr...

Of bilking millions of charges in services they never asked for, flirting tips and who a horoscopes and other spam tied to their bill. we bring in alison kosik, good morning. >> good morning, flirting tips, really. this is the kind thnchts is the reason we list as the reason we hate our phone carriers. consumers were charged these bogus text subscriptions, this happened between 2009 until december of last year, this lasted four years according to the ftc. what happened here is these charges came...

Database of electric phone calls. >> i think thats a very difficult thing, because the whole purpose of this program is to provide instantaneous information. >> we know the private phone carriers dont want to handle that now, so thats a real issue in terms of who has a capability other than nsa to handle this information and particularly given the fact the phone carriers dont want this. >> california democrat adam schiff, thank you for joining us on this monday. >> you bet. >> listen, youre deep...

The dow lost 135 points. the nasdaq and s&p fell. in fact, this is the first time markets started the year on a down note since 2008. one stock that really took a hit was apple. it was downgraded by a wells fargo analyst on concern the balance of power this year will shift from the phone carriers, phone makers rather to the carriers so that stock got hurt you probably have that in your 401(k) somewhere. this should be a big day for ford. auto sales for the month of december and for the year are ...

Inoperable? major phone carriers are saying too bad. adam shapiro is here to explain. what is up with this? >> samsung is proposing to install a kill switch in all of the smart phones. it would render your phone inoperable if the device is lost or stolen. but wireless carriers sprint, t mobile even u.s. cellular he says bad idea. the anti theft software is less than perfect it would allow a hacker to disable your phone even if it was nerp lost or stolen. they were urging manufacturers to install...

Tickets back stage and a shout-out during the show. soon you may be able to upgrade to the latest and greatest smart phone without having to wait until the end of that two-year contract. mandy drewrey is here with what is moving your money. some cell phone carries are changing their rules. >> and a lot of people hate those long-term commits to your cell phone. its usually a two-year contract. several major phone carriers have announced to change up the contract a little bit. you got at&t repor...

This is more phone carriers, if is this a three-month, one three-month order only or rolling ongoing thing but it strongly suggests to me this is the sort of unbroken off continuation of 12 years of post 9/11 policies and it becomes a bipartisan thing. this idea of a bipartisan security state is real and what this is telling us. >> joe? >> it really is. it is a bipartisan security state. historians wont look at george w. bush as a guy who had one separate set of policies and barack obama as a pr...

U.s. citizens. let me go back to the mission nsa does. foreign intelligence. with a focus on counterterrorism. thats our mission. it is to protect this country from things like 9/11. >> reporter: verizon had no comment for fox news this morning. were in the process of trying to determine whether other u.s. phone carriers are subject to a similar order, martha? martha: that is something. looking at those quotes that you just had us watch, catherine, those people will have many so questions to ans...

Costs hundreds of dollars, but you can get an iphone 4, for 40, 50, maybe even 99 cents, people opted for that. people like the product they already have, and the phone carriers, thats the t-mobiles, at&ts and verizons, wont subsidize the cost of phones in a mature category. >> a 99 cent iphone 4 thats not bad. >> wouldnt you take that? >> of course. and get some to spare. and netflix, they were doing so badly and doing a turn around? >> that speaks to the power of the brand in a growing categor...

Capital management for $950 million. avon slid 3% after appointing a former johnson & johnson exec as ceo. china posted a surprise trade surplus of $5.3 billion last month to reverse februarys $31 billion deficit. back here in the u.s., phone carriers are teaming up with the government to crack down on cell phone thefts. major carriers and the fcc agreed to create a database of unique i.d. numbers that would allow them to permanently disable their phone if its stolen. "the hunger games" fr...