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>> this is the internet age. cant tell you how many hamburgers they sold every day. if they roll this out properly, it would report every day on how many people visited, how many were successful, the zip codes. they would be proud of their new health care law. i would ask to help an oversight and get some information about it. jenna: there was a closed-door briefing with a few democrats asked the hill today. and courage from what we heard from the administration. are you surprised by the credits...

Didnt understand why it was different there and that started my rebellion. i said to my newfound friends what do you mean the ambulance will be here in hours? somebodys suffering. and i think thats where i started getting even at that young age a sense of it was different for different zip codes. >> well, did you get into drugs and alcohol like everybody else? >> no. i mean, it was there. i think what saved me from drugs and alcohol was the church. i was still a boy preacher. i got more involved...

We understand theres a segmented labor market even as we saw unemployment decline nationally, it ticked up one point for african-americans. its not a question of is everything good for america automatically good for black america. its the question is it as good for black america. since the problems weve seen among african-americans are a result of specific policies targeted at them, its only reason reasonable that in order to redress those, we have to have a policy that specifically addressed th...

Internal revenue code i dont want to be a lawyer. ill leave it to you. youre a good one. >> you might learn something. thank you both for being with us. coming up, in a move that looks similar to social engineering, president obama wants to plan diversity over government zip codes. and then tonight -- >> trayvon martin paralleled to tim ma mill. same thing. >> thats why president obama is our president. he knows not to get himself in a movie and be on fox news every day. >> a huge firestorm ju...

That child even her life span is determined by the zip code she grows up in. this is simply wrong. >> lets discuss this, shall we, in -- >> lightning rooooouuuunnnddd. lightning round. >> blaming poverty on zip codes rather than other factors. does that make any sense? >> people who think poverty is caused by zip codes is the reason we still have people living in poverty in the country. we would be wise to avoid over simplifications and learn from the inevitable failure of social engineering and...

Prime education and the further down you go, the income distribution until you get to the really poor zip codes the worse the schools get. its very interesting mobility, social mobility has declined in the u.s.. we talk endlessly about inequality but we should worry about social immobility. if youre born into the boston quintile chances are youre stuck there. that isnt what happened in the past. what happened to the american dream? >> even though he says the u.s. has its structural problems ferg...

Simply decide youre good looking and to show up at your house or call you. >> reporter: its joanna davis own sense of possibilities that raises her guard when a clerk asks for a zip code. >> i am a domestic violence survivor, so i highly regard my privacy, and whenever there are those reward programs, i do give a fake birthday, and, you know, in this case, i could have given them a fake zip code. but why should i have to do that? >> reporter: davis story first appeared on forbes.com. as for that...

>> stores can take this information to a data broker and ask them to match up the name with the zip code in order to get the persons home address. they might be able to get e-mail and phone number as well. >> reporter: cliff hushnagle, who teaches law at university of berkeley says they may take that information and target it with other ad campaigns, even share it with other retailers. they can find out your income, whether youve gone through bankruptcy. the practice is not different than what t...

Youll agree it happens a lot when youre shopping. you use a credit card to pay and the sales clerk asks, whats your zip code? but if you casually give up that information, you may want to rethink that from now on. heres cnns brian todd. >> reporter: joanna davis says the situation was so absurd, she laughed out loud in her car afterward. she tried to return an item at an ulta beauty store in sacramento. they asked for her zip code, which she didnt want to give them. what happened when you refuse...

>> stores can take this information to a data broker and ask them to match up the name with the zip code in order to get the persons home address, and they can get other information, too. they might able to get e-mail address or phone number as well. >> chris hoofnagle, who teaches privacy law at the university of california berkeley, says researchers can use that information to target you for marketing campaigns, even share it with other retailers. he says they can gain information about your i...