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HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour): When most people lose a cell phone, there's not necessarily an online community of strangers to help track it down.
But then New York Times technology columnist David Pogue is not most people. He has quite a few Twitter followers, 1.4 million of them. So when Pogue lost his iPhone on a train this week, believing it was stolen, he posted this tweet yesterday to ask for help in finding it.
And there was quite a response. Pogue posted to Twitter a map of where the phone signaled it was at. And within minutes, a large online crowd started to stalk his phone, all based on an app that was tracking its location.
Hours later, police in Prince George's County, Md., tweeted back, saying they had found it. There's a lot that happened in between, much of it good news, but also some real questions about privacy in the digital age.
David Pogue is here to help lay that out. He's also the new host of "NOVA Science Now," and he joins us from Boston.
COMMENT: What privacy? Big-Brother cameras on our streets, in stores, and unthinking social-site users posting dangerously? We get the privacy we deserve, which is none.
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