Big Brother is here in a big way

It may a long way past 1984, but Big Brother is watching you -- and we're not talking about the government.

EVERY time you go online and click on a piece of merchandise, or just pass your mouse over it, trackers are, well, keeping track of it. Thousands of times during your one perusing of the Internet, in some cases. If you look for one blue and one red sock, it shouldn't surprise you that you get emails for businesses that sell one blue and one red sock. I've been checking flight fares to New Orleans because Paula and I will be going to the West Virginia-LSU football game in September. I get emails EVERY day about flights to New Orleans from Akron, Pittsburgh and Cleveland -- some even list the dates we will be leaving and returning!

The Wall Street Journal has been doing a series on it. And CNN did a piece on the Wall Street Journal investigation.

Click on the headline to watch and listen to the CNN segment with a Wall Street Journal reporter.

Go to the Wall Street Journal article