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Hanau short and sweet it's the shift snapshot of. online data collectors use trackers to analyze users' behavior among other purposes the information gathered is then used for targeted advertising those who do not want to be tracked around the web there's the privacy badger the free browser extension. the extension keeps your browsing behavior from being tracked unlike other blocking tools pretty badger doesn't have a list of common trackers instead the add on learns what to block garceau once it has identified the same track on three different websites. alternatively users can configure the a...

>> right. yeah, we measured it at 25 miles across, which is a large eye, and perfectly symmetrical, perfect from a meteorological perspective, yes. they are rare. especially in this part of the world. so quite a unique and amazing storm. >> we've seen, you know, two basically different tracks, the european model, the u.s. model. how confident are you in the tracking so far, that it likely will hit miami? >> well, it's important to note that with the hurricane hunters, we're primarily data collectors. the national hurricane center that's putting out those official forecasts, it's our job to gat...

Will take 12 hours. a long and turbulent flight. these air force reservists are trained to fly in these dangerous conditions, bringing along a team of scientists who collect information from the storm using these data collectors which helps predict where the storm will go and saving millions of dollars in storm preparation and, more importantly, saving lives. >> comes down to evacuate or not evacuate. emergency management, they have the tough job. forecasters, they have the tough job. we go in a storm, we get a rough ride, we collect the data. they take that information to help those guys do t...

Now we don't have that right in this country but our cousins in europe do. jenna: but it is an interesting private market solution potentially. >> yes. jenna: we could see private data brokers we could hire to make sure our private information is not out there. >> all that could be done without the government. jenna: what do you think true transparency looks like in this day and age legally? that is what the ftc says they're concerned about for consumers we don't realize these data collectors might know more about us than our families? >> i'm afraid of what true transparency looks like. the bi...

Sells maternity clothes they will sell the fact thaw googled them and your email address to a company that collects that and in turn markets it. is there a way to stop this? well, would require legislation to stop it. jenna: what do you think about that? lobbyists working on behalf of data collectors say that the potential for harm does not elicit the need for new legislation. if there actually is harm, if someone feels that their privacy has been violated, that is a different story but the potential is not enough to -- >> i tell you what i like and i rarely like this but in 24 instance i do. ...