A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

Within a couple of minutes, literally minutes, they had cleaned out almost three dozen boxes of remote control cars and trucks. High-end stuff -- I mean, this stuff is not the kind of toys you find at the local toy store.

Once you opt in, you don't have a lot of control over where your information goes.

Unfortunately, that's above and beyond our control. Every attempt is made, but until we can verify information, we can't clear it.

The information could be misplaced and retrieving it would require sophisticated hardware. But any information out of our control concerns us.