Hi, this is Warren Alney. Thanks so much for listening to this podcast of To the Point,

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She used to be editor of an architecture magazine.

She knows the trends before they happen. She'll be able to fill you in on them. You can find DNA on KCRW's iTunes page.

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

The downside of data mining. Hello again, I'm

Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. A daily look at the

issues Americans care about most. Your personal data is all over the internet, and it's up for sale,

not just to marketers but to financial

institutions and possible employers if you've just applied for a warranty or googled somebody else's

chronic disease you could be on a list of bad credit risks or unsuitable employees if the

information is wrong there's not much you can do to correct it because it's secret and there's almost no regulation.

And don't forget about the NSA.

It might be secretly mining even the data of its own corporate partners.

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