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Both sides of the aisle want answers, chief congressional correspondent has more. >> the irs is concerned irs secret cell phone tracking systems. irs commissioner was asked about it at a senate finance committee hearing this week. >> i would stress it follows the justice department rules, it requires a court order and it requires probable cause with regard to criminal investigations. it is not used in civil matters at all. its not used by other employees of the irs. >> how frequently are irs cri...

Both sides of the aisle want answers, chief congressional correspondent has more. >> the irs is concerned irs secret cell phone tracking systems. irs commissioner was asked about it at a senate finance committee hearing this week. >> i would stress it follows the justice department rules, it requires a court order and it requires probable cause with regard to criminal investigations. it is not used in civil matters at all. its not used by other employees of the irs. >> how frequently are irs cri...

Cases, even faster than a call to 911. heres david wright. >> reporter: a life or death emergency on this california soccer field for this 62-year-old. >> i had cardiac arrest. my heart just stopped. lucky for him, help was just across the street. >> i was about to sit down to dinner, and i received a cpr alert on my phone. >> reporter: training paramedic subscribes to pulse point, its uber for cpr, an app that connects people with life-saving skills with people who need help right now. so eve...

One of the problems weve seen in this, their own employees and executives have been mis-using this. >> uber, a popular ride-sharing app, misused where customers travel. one executive reportedly used that information against a reporter who had criticized the company. as chair of the senate subcommittee, he gave uber a monday deadline to address new questions about how they use sensitive gee owe location data. >> part of what my work has been doing is letting consumers understand whats out there. ...

>> uber, a popular ride-sharing app, misused where customers travel. one executive reportedly used that information against a reporter who had criticized the company. as chair of the senate subcommittee, he gave uber a monday deadline to address new questions about how they use sensitive gee owe location data. >> part of what my work has been doing is letting consumers understand whats out there. and so you know what youre signing up for when you do something like this. and, also, letting the co...

Growth. smart rewards and claims it does not give any personally identifiable only location data. customers earn points for every dollar spent for services and upgrades. you can spend it on products in a verizon catalog. is it worth giving up a little privacy for a few bucks? is time will tell i suppose. >> depends where you go, i guess. the time is almost 10 minutes to the top of the hour. two masked men storm a casino stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> recent shark divings may kee...

That. he says hes just doing what hes trained. my goodness! wow. >> that is remarkable! >> that is crazy. >> hes lucky, first, he didnt get hit, and second, he was able to -- wow, unbelievable. >> i drive by that gas station every day. all right, a major ruling on cell phone data and privacy. a federal appeals court says the government must obtain a warrant to access location data recorded by mobile phones. the court said people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their movements, and ...

Or could they tell the direction it would likely have moved? >> my understanding theyre already on-site and dropping bee co beacons or buoys to measure the drift. with that knowledge they should be able to tell that. theyre not sharing that with anybody that i know of or i can find. so their knowledge of how fast the currents go should be in their database right now. if they arent collecting that, i would find it impossible theyre not trying to collect as much in location data that they can whil...

Piece. this is about in-depth analysis, understanding the data and being able to extract information that it was not designed to do. remember, these inmarsat satellit satellites, 22,000 miles up are there to pass data about the status of the aircraft, status of the aircrafts engines. so youre repurposing that and trying to work the math and work back through the information to determine location data and extract it out of this data that it truly wasnt meant to provide. >> and its interesting bec...

Sechl wwise, he has been breaking it down. >> there are a whole bunch of theories why this doesnt hold water. we had some breaking news involving whoever changed the waypoints in the flight computer did it 12 minutes before the acars system was turned off, before the co-pilot said good night in very calm tones. the change in course was not due to something that happened spontaneously, it wasnt a spontaneous reaction to some emergency in a cockpit. it had been planned out. just additional to that...