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>> if it comes from somebody i know it's okay to open that. >> no. >> so how do i communicate with people? >> people that you know, if you and i are having dialogue i might click links and i'll engage in that. but if i get an e-mail from my bank saying hey your statements ready. click on this link to access your statement. i'm not going to click that link. it's so con convenient to click that link and bad guys know that. if you type into it the address bar or go to your favorites menu, these extra steps you might take protect you. >> you say slurp up the information. >> if you use a wireless network you have to have encryption. >> yes. >> so public wifi, airports, hotels out in the open. i can see your data as it's transmitting through the air. >> but if i'm on free wifi i don't give out my credit card numbers that way. >> well, some people do, right? >> yeah. >> so as long as i don't, i'm okay. >> they can't crawl into the computer and get other stuff. >> your operating system is
silver that his grandma gave him. all sorts of opportunities to reign in our own privacy and say nothing about the fact that you go to somebody's house to visit. your gps tracker may take you there and may show that you are there. what if hah information is now being shared with other friends that should have been invited to the house at the same time and now you find yourself explaining, oh, i'm sorry. you weren't included in that lovely dinner. >> the government wants the trackers mandatory in all cars. they're already in more than 90%. companies use them to keep track of employees. the wall street journal reports one company found one worker overseeing a woman during the day and another admitted he was blowing off work. they fired him but caught him with the trackers. >> they do. this may have some cost savings for companies that decide to put this in their vehicle. i assume fox could -- fox can
facebook, pinterest. >> he think the government will get him. >> you didn't read them? i read the entire thing every time it pops up. >> no one reads it. what's your point. if you read them, you click it, so what? >> i mean, look these terms and conditions are designed not to be read. they strip you of rights in these terms and conditions. they basically take away in constitution in terms and conditions and say look even though you have these rights in the physical world, in the digital world, you don't have any. europe has a law that requires companies to tell customer who is ask exactly what data they store. >> got it right there. that's 1,222 pages. >> yet it's easy for facebook to zip through that information and learn private things about you. >> type in one word, let's say demonstration or sex or political party or something and within seconds you'll find the
her father did. >> they outed her. >> explain that. >> so target like pretty much any other big retailer, they track what you buy, right? so what target did in that case, allegedly, is they determined that pregnant women typically buy a lot of moisturizer during a certain trimester and these other products so this teenager ended up in that pool of people that would get in the mail a bunch of coupons for whatever the moisturizer was and some of these other products that pregnant women buy. >> and they mailed her the coupons and her father asked why are you getting these? >> yeah. it's just become this story that typifies how marketers use information and how much information they're collecting on us. >> they know before you may even know said a guy in a previous segment about who you're going
likewise, google reveals information about me. lots of it. some of it is wrong but there's little i can do about that either. facebook knows my preferences and who i might stalk. other sites track what i like to read. what a browse, what i buy. i'm told i should be very upset about this but i'm not. i depend on getting and sending e-mails. for all i know, my 16-year-old neighbor hijacks them and sells them to my political enemies. i have plenty of those and they'd love to embarrass me. so far i don't think that's happened but who knows. because of today's technology i changed my behavior years ago. i try not to e-mail anything too embarrassing. i'm aware when i search the web someone might watch. i'll deal with that. if you find out what i like to do on the weekend, what medications i take or that i've seen a psycho therapist, so what? i'm not ashamed. i want to do something really embarrassing, i better do it in
>> and now, john stossel. >> do you have a facebook account? do you post pictures on instagram or personal things on twitter or linkedin? you probably do. most americans now do. it's how we connect with friends, share pictures, give updates about our lives. i love facebook. this page helps me understand what you think and you give me feedback that makes me smarter. i also have a personal facebook page that helps me stay in touch with friends, arrange volleyball games. my life is infinitely better because of facebook. but there's a down side. loss of privacy. more of a loss of privacy than i realized before i researched this program. recently a comedian freaked out random people by demonstrating how much he could learn about them. >> i wanted to see how easy it could be to get personal information from complete
go to facebook, all of these other sites grab information from me as well. so i go to amazon, these sites watch. even one of my favorite sites, reason.com has all of these other sites spying on my interests. this tells me that but it doesn't stop it. >> right. >> there are companies that promise to stop it. >> yeah. but really the easiest way, i mean, if you're using, say, mozilla's firefox as your browser or internet explore rer, the explorer, go into your settings and tell it you want certain types disabled. >> it give mess a choice to clear my history and that takes it off my computer. >> right. >> but google still knows. >> yeah, that information is being gathered as it's happening in real time. so google, facebook. >> it doesn't matter. >> it's already in their data
mile radius of my home, laptops, desktops, netbooks. >> somebody told it and presumably wiped it clean. >> i asked them if they wiped it clean and all of them said they did and on half of the devices i was able to find enough data to steal identities even after they erased the hard drives or reset it back to factory. >> i thought erase means erase. >> because of the way the technology is built there's these partitions or additional closets that there's still stuff stored in there like a back up. so bad guys know how to find that when you recycle it or throw it away or resell it. so you have to destroy that drive or use a shredder to eliminate the data. >> you saying nowhere phishing. >> yeah, any time you receive an e-mail or text message that say pick this link, that's designed to trick you or spoof you. it's entering personal information.
computer. a hacker managed to grab them and sent them to gossip websites. jay-z, ashton kutcher, kim kardashian weren't happy to find their social security numbers and credit card numbers posted on a russian website. how do crooks get this information and is there anything we can do to protect ourselves? he's a consultant for the internet security company. they get paid to stymy hackers and scanners. how do they get in and get my stuff? >> they get in because consumers may not have antivirus or spy ware or firewall set up. >> when you say antivirus i think of malware things that wreck the computer but now it's to keep the crooks off? >> correct. that's designed to keep the bad
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