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The missing plane. joining me is the man who headed up the investigation of flight twa. james, thanks for joining us. u.s. officials are now saying they believe flight 370 could -- i want to emphasize again, could -- nothing is definite yet in this story -- could have flown for several more hours, based on some pings of data and that could be as far as the indian ocean. what does this new information tell you? >> well, my understanding, jake, is that that data is not continuous but builds up in ...

A privacy advocate calls this an intrusive dragnet. >> location data reveals some of the most personal and private aspects of our lives. if we go to an abortion clinic or to an aa meeting, location data captures that, even if were not telling anyone were going to those meetings. railroad the nsa would not comment on the post report. it says the program operates so a minimum amount of cell phone location data is not count up in this and that it is -- >> here to talk about this from the civil libe...

Category of innocent. >> is this a question of the nsa having more oversight, better opportunity or is this the type of program you feel needs to be stopped all together? because congress hasnt moved to do that yet. >> we learned this week this is not being overseen, its something the executive branch is doing by itself when its partners in forng intelligence services. location data is so sensitive, it reveals where you dleep, when youre at a gun store, at a gay information for a data set for pe...

Location data are lawful. theyre intended to develop intelligence about foreign targets according to that report. if youre not too thrilled when you hear this latest news about the nsa allegedly tracking your every move, we have another story to make you feel uneasy as well. hackers. hackers have apparently stolen user names, passwords for nearly 2 million facebook, gmail, twitter, and yeahhue accounts. i have three of the four so im paying extra close attention, lori siegel, and you never want ...

Officials that would have before been considered science fiction. >> the new nsa documents reported fbi washington post are controversial because they suggest the nsa is collecting location data from cell phones and other wireless devices when not being used. 5 billion records are collected data. it can be used to retrace your movements as well as identify relationships. >> we call it tip off information. these guilt by association, links become potential evidence of a terrorist plot by the fact...

Panned they can be analyzed to show not only where you go but who you may be meeting with and the frequency of those contacts. this is what intelligence analysts call your pattern of life. now according to the analysis of the documents by "the washington post" the nsa is collecting location data overseas and it does not have a meaningful way to filter out the location data transmitted by the cell phones or other wireless device that is belong to american citizens. and at a senate hearing just tw...

Unimaginebly vast data base of all of our phone calls, but this is what they call metadata, the number calling from, the number to, how long it lasts. theres location data in there like what cell phone tower the call is bouncing off of. you can use this once you associate -- once you look back and associate a number with a person to, for example, track a persons movements. and certainly look at a persons phone calls or whatever. but thats the data base. its not listening to the conversations. th...

Been doing it for months. elizabeth is live in washington, d.c. with the latest. good morning. do we know who were targeting and why at this point? >> we do not know who or why but britains guardian released a document showing the national security agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of verizon users. so you have a verizon phone plan it applies to you. within the document, that verizon must hand over the information in an ongoing daily basis. what does this mean for you and me...

Uncollected phone data by millions of americans by the federal government. according to the british newspaper "the guardian," the obama administration is conducteding a massive diagram surveillance program which requires vor eye son erizon wit thelve informati telephone information and includes domestic calls and other calls between the countries. the order was issued by the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court and granted the government unlimited authority to collect data over a three...

Phone data from millions of americans by the federal government. according to the british newspaper "the guardian," the obama administration is conducting a massive diagromest surveillance program which requires verizon with national telephone information and includes domestic calls and other calls between the countries. the order was issued by the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court and granted the government unlimited authority to collect data over a three-month period ending on jul...