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>> i do it every night. >> you need to hear this. you have some issues here if you'll be shopping on the internet. >> the fbi is sounding an alarm over more cyberscams allowing hackers to access your personal data. here's rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: a warning from the fbi as you are planning to take advantage from the hottest deals online. crooks are planning to take advantage of you with these three new scams. >> they are constantly looking to steal data and information from consumers. no better time for them than during the holiday season when they know consumers are online. >> fake deal al...

Week that the government's time being of the essence is true. that's what the committee said, as they look at the phone mining program, they are not persuaded by the government's argument that instantaneous access is necessary to prevent terror attacks. we don't see the proof it's ever happened before. that's got to be troubling for them. >> pete makes a good point. the phone metadata records, slowing it down is not a tragedy. in the scheme of counter-terrorism that's not a critical thing. the question is with this other oversight and process suggested in the report, how much it will slow down...

Action, google attorneys cited a supreme court decision stating that users should have no legitimate expectation of privacy, so in terms of mining personal data -- >> these services are big honey pots. so the first thing we need to do is decentralize again. >> reporter: mccarthy argues we should all seek out more obscure e-mail providers, which have fewer users and are less attracted to big marketers. or better yet, use an e-mail program that lives in your computer, bypassing the middle man. and he says we should all start looking at encryption software that will garble every message so it can...

Sending the message to. and huge e-mail companies with millions of users do just that. with powerful computers they scan every word for clues to help them sell precisely targeted ads. if you write kayak in several messages soon you see ads for river trips. mention cars and you see models burning across the desktop. google attorneys cited a supreme court decision stating users should have no legitimate expectation of privacy. so in terms of mining data. >> these services are honey pots. >> reporter: mccarthy argues we should all seek out more obscure providers. or better yet he says use an e-ma...

Or your credit card. oh, they just want me to logon and check something. okay. you enter your username and pass ward but you're not really on your bank's site. you're on a site that looks just like it. but it's a fake. >> so if you get an e-mail like that. >> the best thing to do, and this takes a little bit of extra time, and unfortunately that's sort of the security environment we're living in. don't click on a link in your e-mail program. open up your web browser, type in city bank, bank of america, ebay, facebook, whatever it is and logon directly from that so you know you're going directl...