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Databases together. so here's the risk. even if you remove your name, your e-mail address and your birth date from your online profiles, and you have many of them, everything can be tracked on line. birthday wishes from your family, vacations you take. last year, two m.i.t. researchers did a sexual orientation study prediction on facebook based solely on your friends. the two researchers are live with us. we'll talk with them after the break about what you need to do to keep your information safe. stay with us.

>> carter, is that particularly scientific? because i guess you could sort of figure it out when you look at things like that or figure out where somebody is from, based on where their largest concentration of friends is, or where they went to college, even if they didn't put that on. was this sort of a mystery to you? >> i think what was novel about our research is that we've really shown that this birds of a feather phenomenon applies in online communities, even when people don't publicly disclose information. so if your profile had basically no information and it was very bare-bones, just b...

Privacy. so as i said, again, a lot of people think oh, well, our research doesn't apply, because, you know, i don't have any information on my own profile. >> right. b >> but we were are interested in raising awareness, even if you think you have done the best job of keeping information private, that may not be the case. >> there's a quote in your study from scott abrams, the creator of dill bert. is that really going to be the solution? >> perhaps it is. but just so that you know, even if you're very uninteresting to the average person, you're very interesting to different companies. so th...

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Senior member of the fbi off guard. we weren't. it was to the point where the fbi said to the lawmakers we were sitting there questioning should we tackle the magistrate? short of doing that, we're not going to be able to stop her from stopping us in the middle of our interrogation which they said was not done, which they said they were getting valuable information in, in which they said they wanted to continue and they did not sign off on nor will they consulted on the fact that they were sending a judge over to-mile-an-hour daze the suspect. >> bill: all right. so what key can glean from tha...