book a round at select tpc courses today at pgatour.com/mastercard. that's mastercard. that's priceless. . >>> they are now on the first extra hole, the 19th. steven fox was trailing after the first 18. look at this list right here. the champions who actually trail. >> tiger woods, three straight times. he was behind after the morning 18. and three times he went on to win. >> that's really where the legend began. what is the situation for michael beaver? >> across the cart path, there is a tree that nearly is in his way, just not quite. there is the sign, the tee sign to the right of the tee but i think they're going to try to remove if possible. i think that could be a bit of a concern. he does have an angle. he does have an angle to play. >> steven fox is very good from this distance. still a lot of pressure. a lot of ways to get it close, mark. can you land it short and catch a down slope. can you go back behind the hole. >> 85 yards. >> and gets up on top and stays. >> that's going to be fast, fast, fast. >> wow. >> so a little unfortunate there for steven fox. i'm

book a round at select tpc courses today at pgatour.com/mastercard. that's mastercard. that's priceless. . >>> they are now on the first extra hole, the 19th. steven fox was trailing after the first 18. look at this list right here. the champions who actually trail. >> tiger woods, three straight times. he was behind after the morning 18. and three times he went on to win. >> that's really where the legend began. what is the situation for michael beaver? >> across the cart path, there is a tree that nearly is in his way, just not quite. there is the sign, the tee sign to the right of the tee but i think they're going to try to remove if possible. i think that could be a bit of a concern. he does have an angle. he does have an angle to play. >> steven fox is very good from this distance. still a lot of pressure. a lot of ways to get it close, mark. can you land it short and catch a down slope. can you go back behind the hole. >> 85 yards. >> and gets up on top and stays. >> that's going to be fast, fast, fast. >> wow. >> so a little unfortunate there for steven fox. i'm

>> the digital is a genuine mastercard transaction. consumer gets the same benefits. >> we appreciate your time. the chief emerging payments offer at mastercard. i want to send it over to you. you have been in the space. i am wondering how you are playing it. >> we have been short recently. i thought that the starbucks announcement was critical in that -- it should highlight that the verifone business model is under attack. we will see a lot of ways to do electronic mobile payments. charging $600 for the swipe machines, that is a system we won't see two or three years from now. i like to be short business models that are in a stake of flux. >> where they have the swipe thing at every store. it seems unassailable until you realize there is serious venture backing. they see it as lunch meat. one of the things we are trying to do is avoid the infrastructure movement. >> i think you have to be somewhat concerned. you are talking about a $670 billion industry. obviously that is a problem for mastercard and visa themselves. i think when you

>>rob: it's because mastercard and visa aren't you strong. i n shares of these that i suggest of the people own shares and he said. my hairdresser takes everything on square right now and swipes people's credit cards in >>darya: let's schedule james for the weather we are looking back at san francisco. rays hitting the building. it is on the cool side. here's your daily planner. temperatures are on the mild side. we're looking at 55-58 on the average. by 12:00 noon we are looking for a mostly sunny skies. it will be warm in land around 80. by 3:00 p.m. we are seeing the inland temperatures being in the '80s and '90s. that is what we're seeing in terms of the weather for today couldn't your 7 day around the bay says that tomorrow will listen want to today. friday we will begin to cool down a little bit. and then saturday and sunday it will breezy in cooler with our inland highs only in the low 80s. let's get an update on the traffic. >>george: there are big changes in the bay bridge pin the back up reaches almost to the 80 over cross. we've ad

when they won the account, mastercard said use the voice that you used in the demo. so 15 years later, you know? >> jimmy: what did you get paid for the demo. >> $250. >> jimmy: now you get more. you are locked in at that -- >> i am great at voiceovers. i'm not great at negotiating. >> jimmy: it's great to see you. >> it's great to see you. >> jimmy: please come back again. we'll play scrabble and report back on our finding. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> jimmy: billy crudup! "the watch" opens in theaters july 27th. we'll be right back with fred willard. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ this happy couple used capital one venture miles for their "destination wedding." double miles you can "actually" use. but with those single mile travel cards... [ bridesmaid ] blacked out... but i'm a bridesmaid. oh! "x" marks the spot she'll never sit. but i bought a dress! a toast... ...to the capital one venture card. fly any airline, any flight, anytime. double miles you can actually use. what a coincidence? what's in your wallet? [ all screaming ] watch the elbows ladies. in

they stole gift cards from panera and used them as a visa or mastercard. stolen credit card information on gift cards. >> the same information was encoded into the gift card. >> reporter: panera showed us their card. police are trying to track down how the thieves did it. they likely used an electronic machine to transfer the codes. the owner of one credit card notified the store. >> they looked into it. looked at the receipts and the footage and sought same vehicles and the same men were doing it over and over again. >> reporter: on saturday 32-year-old ricky evans, 50-year-old glen keller and 50-year-old kenneth reed of baltimore were caught and arrested at the pump. three suspects, two cars and multiple credit card numbers now put to rest. >> everything involves stealing makes me mad. >> reporter: evans, keller and reed are charged with retail theft, fraud and conspiracy. police aren't certain how the diesel was being used in the baltimore area, if the three had their own business or if they were selling it, cheryl conner, abc2 news. >> we're working to

it was only available through city card and mastercard. >>> payings will be able to get a gourmet experience on their next overseas flight. the airline is introducing the dine for fresh program. you can get item like creme brulee. those who don't want to pay extra will be provided complimentary food on long flights. >>> folks in harford county are. abc2 news at 6 starts right now. >> it flooded our basements. >> not again. her house flooded again. how one woman is fighting the city and a wall of water in her basement. >> we did have some storms earlier. everything cleared out. your full forecast coming up. >> one of the best resources i think we have right now is the internet. >> before you go out for dinner, abc2 is working for you. how to uncover calories hidden in restaurant menus. >> some storms are dotting the ear so we'll have to keep a close eye on the skies. look at this gray hanging over. when will the clouds clear out. give me the broom. mike, how is the evening looking? >>> this shot sums it all up. we're going to be dealing with the humidity, not only tonight, not only tomorrow,

mastercard, again amazing numbers. there's a simple osteogill on the credit card use is expanding all around the world, even though masterward was light on revenues. you see the numbers, purchase volume up 13.5%, that's truly remarkable. some of the other numbers out there, processed transactions, the numbers of transactions globally up 29%? those are amazing numbers. the u.s. was lower. globally was a lot higher, but that makes sense around the world. other people are continuing to use these masterbers. 67% beating on earnings, only 40% beading on revenues. that story continues. revenues disappointing this quarter. >> rick santelli. hi, rick. >> good morning, jim. a lot of people talking about china, mostly in the context, as bob pointed out action there may be more pushing on the way, but i find the currency side fascinating. if you look at a chart starting in early april, the dollar has moving higher, but if you look at the last several sessions,i reversed down in a rather substantial fashion. whether it's due to co

that's mastercard. that's priceless. for stand up to cancer. well another great thing about all this walking i've been doing is that it's given me time to reflect on some of life's biggest questions. like, if you could save hundreds on car insurance by making one simple call, why wouldn't you make that call? see, the only thing i can think of is that you can't get any... bars. ah, that's better. it's a beautiful view. i wonder if i can see mt. rushmore from here. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> simon: beauty has a way of turning up in places where you'd least expect it. we went to the congo earlier this year, the poorest country in the world. kinshasa, the capital, has a population of ten million, and almost nothing in the way of hope or peace. but there's a well-kept secret down there. kinshasa has a symphony orchestra-- the only one in central africa, the only all- black one in the world. it's called the kimbanguist symphony orchestra. we'd never heard of it. no one we called had ever heard o

tapping visa credit card lines and mastercard lines. i was often paying one credit card off with another. always juggling, forever drowning. here is how bad things got for me. it got to the point where just pay the minimum on those credit card bills and home equity loans was the single biggest expense. biggest one. i used to tell my wife if the chemo doesn't kill me, the lack of cash to pay for it. will i don't know what scared me more? dying or dieing in debt. as you can see, i didn't die. i beat that cancer. i got another bad disease after that. this isn't about me. i remember as if it were yesterday, and you know what i see happening all over again in the country today? sicker where i ever was. we pay $240 billion a year just in interest on that $16 trillion debt. think about that. that is our national finance charge, not a penny of it going to pay off the debt. just the interest on the debt. that is with rates really low. can you imagine if it goes really high or just a little higher? i remember such a time. do you? do the politicia

meantime, mastercard saw some selling pressure after its quarterly revenues were less than expected. shares fell 2.2% as volume more than doubled. facebook continues seeing heavy trading in its stock as shares continue sinking. today's 3.8% drop takes facebook to its lowest price since going public in may at $38. it has now lost 45% since then. another social media stock, game maker zynga, also continues to see its share price fall to new lows. zynga dropped 4.8% as it reshuffles its senior executives after disappointing quarterly results. four of the five most actively traded e.t.f.'s were lower. the lone exception was the emerging markets fund, up 0.2%. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: the federal reserve's low interest rate policy has led to historically low borrowing costs, but many small businesses have complained about the difficulty in qualifying for a bank loan, especially a commercial mortgage. as we continue our look at regional banking this week, we visit a restaurant that only got its loan thanks to a government guarantee, even though banks have been easing le

keller wrote as rumors build about the potential financial black hate against new york times by visa mastercard and american express for hosting us government cables published by wiki leaks i find myself in the awkward position of having to defend wiki leaks but wiki leaks is the resistance this guy keller of the new york times is clueless it's like i saw that h.b.o. show about the newspaper business which was like the new york times it's called the news room and the number one guy. trying to figure out what to do about this massive story breaking in the gulf and second by second by second by not a single person mentions twitter ok so that right there you realize that the writer of that show sorkin the guy from the west wing has been living in a bubble for the last fifteen years and has not really stepped outside of his bungalow in. so you know these mainstream liberal new york times op ed writers are pathetically out of touch and within the rubric of the new york times bubble machine of out of touch ness of course you've got paul krugman you've got thomas friedman who's who if you were to pars

to deal with this bank the so-called banking blockade now many have question why why would these a mastercard bank of america western union pay pal go to this extent why would apple remove wiki leaks you know application off of the i phone and many come to the conclusion that it is because they are trying to take a stand against wiki leaks and don't want their own secrets revealed many to believe that a lot of us senators influenced these major banking corporations and powerful and for corporations to take the offensive against wiki leaks and julian assange now do you take an offensive against somebody that is that has doesn't have any information that could hurt you clearly this is this is a fight that's being waged against a person who says he created a site he says for transparency and accountability last i checked that was the job of journalists is to hold leaders accountable it's to make sure that the public knows the truth. in this case is being you know targeted by many members of the u.s. government many members of u.s. powerful organizations everyone can make up their own mind to see

were supporting the pirate bay because this is a bit torrent piracy site, supporting wikileaks because mastercard, visa and paypal have stopped funding services for wikileaks. supporting the demonstrators in the middle east. oftentimes the most dramatic operations done by people and anonymous are attacks is people who are defending, sorry, who are trying to attack anonymous itself. so when a contract in februar february 2011 gave an interview for the financial times with the ceo said he had identified members of anonymous and its leadership, a group of them went out of this gentleman with vengeance and attacked his servers and so thousands of e-mails and published them online. it was really a devastating attack on his reputation and career. but again, very dramatic when it comes to self-preservation. >> does anonymous still exist today. are the still anonymous or have they been identified? >> certainly some support is very key organizers with an anonymous have been identified because they have been arrested. the only other time that someone would be identified is if they've been what they call do

it is a prepaid mastercard with a system that text. every time your child uses the card. >> it texts me every time they spend. it is like a gps system. it is great. >> it was a little freaky at first. >> the card cost about $4 a month with some additional charges for atm for other uses. that is a very small price to pay to teach their children how to handle their money properly. the wildfires out west are starting to impact a popular beer. you probably -- fat tire beers says it is tainted by the fast- moving flames. the water system has been impacted by the fire. there will have to tap into the river to make its famous ale. >> the whole point of doing the testing is to make sure we get to that people restart bring with it. you're talking about a smoky flavor inherent to the water. >> they're working with the city to continue using the water reserves. >> it could be. that taste like scotch. they may be aggressive on the racetrack, but this morning, they saw more gentle side of the indycar erasers. it is a program called racing for kids.

until now the patent application only worked with citibank mastercard staff and a certain type of telephone from sprint. now any card will work, but the types of telephones are still limited. amazon is after some business going to itunes and netflix. the kindle fire had been the only tablet that could use the company's instant video service but no longer. twitter will update results every evening about how people feel about the two presidential candidates. excuse us, while we change into something more comfortable. cool. introducing, the squaree sunnyd bottle. good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're b talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ ♪ wow. delicious, rigou? yeah it's the honey it makes it taste so... ♪ ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. cooks just going to try to make plays for the team and give my best effort. >> the wide receiver for the redskins is not concerned with who is the no. 1 receive

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retailers plan to submit a $7.2 billion antitrust proposal with visa and mastercard. the two credit card companies were accused of inflating fees charged to retailers. they support the settlement several large retailers including walmart and target oppose it. >>> gore dellly chocolate company has big plans to expand their operation. the san francisco business times reports they will add 2,000 square feet to the original flag ship store in san francisco. it also l also open stores at san francisco's palace hotel. and harrah's las vegas. >>> the blistering report about a muni policy that leaves passengers out in the cold. that let you move the tv around wherever. no siree, bob. who's bob? and if you didn't have a tv outlet, well then you couldn't watch diddly-squat. you talk a lot. you have no idea how good you have it. that's not working. [ grunts ] [ male announcer ] the wireless receiver, only from at&t. get a free wireless receiver with a qualifying u-verse plan. rethink possible. gi've never writtencereal,er with aa fan letter before,plan. but you've done the impos

i think visa and mastercard are winners in this environment. they are toll collectors. >> they are the ones who got hit hard on the starbucks square deal. >> how about the idea of the security side of things too? the fact that intel made that big move and they are in that security software area, that's probably one of the issues that people are always concerned with. >> i also have just been marveling at the increased interest in ebay because of the paypal and because of this mobile payment discussion. that's up 9% just in the last three days or maybe it's four days ebay is running from 43.70 to 46 and change. that's a nice move. that's one i would continue to watch. that's my favorite in the space. >> quickly before we get you go, bill, do you own shares of facebook either personally or in another capacity? >> yeah. we own benchmark capital is the single largest investors in instagram. that transaction has not closed yet but that leaves us exposed. >> you are obviously positive about the prospects for facebook going forward. let me steer your

i have to believe others will adopt paypell, which is cheaper than mastercard and visa. the aisles are jammed with products that are going to be ordered and ordered and ordered again now that ceo frank blake has told us that housing is no longer a drag on the u.s. economy but actually giving it a boost. given how long this sector spent in the wilderness, it's inconceivable to me the move could be over after one quarter and blake would not have stuck his neck out if he thought it was possible. let's go shopping for stocks in the aisles of the best-run store in the country. even after these moves it's always a bargain if it's selling well at home depo. jo, in wisconsin. josh? >> caller: hey, jim. big trucker boo-yah to yeah ya. >> what's own your mind? >> caller: love your passion. love it. looking at the retail sales data that came out today, also home depo reporting good numbers or better than expected. could you say the top is in in treasuries? >> everybody who said that the last couple of years has been dead wrong. i will say this. i don't know why you should be in tre

americans are wracking up more credit card debt but are still being pretty good at paying off visa and mastercard bill. average credit card debt rose 6% this spring to $4,971. but late payments are those 90 days late or more, are still hovering near an 18-year low. many consumers are taking steps to save money and appear more willing to make credit card bills a priority over their mortgages and car payments. now, one likely contributor to the higher debt, banks are issuing more cards, especially to people with less than stella credit histories. and rain and cooler temperatures in the midwest may have slowed crops from deteriorating further but analysts say it may not make much of a difference. the usda says an 18 states that primarily grow corn, 51% of the crop is in poor or very poor condition due to the severe drought. and about 38% of the nation's soybean crops are in poor condition. so, guys, we can expect higher food prices going forward. >> at least we got the warning now. shartia brantley at cnbc, thank you. >>> the olympic flag is now in rio degentlem rio de niro. the mayor waved the fla

assange acknowledged that his fundraising has been hurt by the decision of paypal, mastercard, visa, and bank of america to cease handling donations. but he dismissed reports that wikileaks is wracked by internal dissention and mass defections. >> we're talking about daniel domscheit-berg, who was a german spokesperson, had a limited role in the organization. we had to suspend him some five months ago. >> describes you as being authoritarian, secretive, punitive. >> i'm the boss that suspended him. that's correct. >> you don't care to elaborate? >> i think i just did, yeah. >> you've said you have this package of very damaging documents, sort of a poison pill, that's going to be released if anything bad happens to you. >> no, that's not at all true. that's some kind of media hype. what we do have is a system whereby we distribute encrypted backups of things we have yet to publish. there are backups distributed amongst many, many people-- 100,000 people. and that all we need to do is give them an encrypted key, and they will be able to continue on. >> this wasn't intended to be a blac

. >> i guess, jon, this is a bit of a shot at visa and mastercard and the other credit card and processing companies because these companies, well, they don't want to pay them if they don't have and own the platform. there must be some companies in the infrastructure of these businesses that are going to make money off it, technology or software companies. >> well, i can tell you this is not so much about how the transaction is processed on the back end but knowing more about the customer at the register. a lot of these retailers don't know what the customers bought before swiping their credit card. visa has that information but they don't. paypal trying to bring that tech nlg as you see it in to home depot and other locations and looks like those companies trying to band together and get the data to offer deals, things like that. google trying to get in the space and ap wl the passbook trying to get in there, too, tyler. >> thank you very much, julia, as well. >>> when we come back, we'll analyze the analyst. calls on tap include agnico-eagle minds. barnes & noble and mcdonald's. first so

at 5:00, head of emerging payments at mastercard. >> that is it for "squawk on the street." looking forward to that. thank you for watching. the "halftime report" starts right now. >> thank you, guys. welcome to "halftime." modest losses across the board. the dow in shouting distance of four and a half year high. here is what we're following on halftime today. america's favorite stock. apple the richest publicly traded company ever. what's next for the juggernaut. find out from an analyst who just met with a top app exec. anti-social returns, facebook falls to another record low. one of our traders just bought it. plus the analyst that upgraded that stock today. we're trading big movers today. first our top story. that's the market meltup. the s&p rally for six straight weeks but how much longer kat bulls climb the wall of worry. guys, a wall of worry it is. if you were to take a look at what's happening with the market, we're worried about the fiscal cliff. we're worried about china growth. gas prices are the highest they have been ever on this day in history. there's the f

i got to tell you, pay pat is the preferred way versus mastercard and visa. john in new jersey, john? >> caller: how when you today? >> all right, how are you? >> caller: good looking son of a gun. what's going on with zinga? >> i lost you. you said something before son of a gun? >> you good looking son of a gun, how you been? >> real good. i wanted to be sure, i thought i might have heard wrong. go ahead. >> caller: zinga, what's going on, i'm down 40%. >> zinga, c.o.o. just left. what can i say? it's play losses with friends. it's like, let's lose money with friends. i don't know. if you want to have social media, if you want to be there, the only one that seems to be doing okay is yelpster. maybe linked inn. these are not my cup of tea. let's go to brian in illinois, please. >> caller: hey, jim. i want to start off by saying go oregon ducks. >> okay. yeah. yeah, right, right, illinois, oregon. yeah, why not? >> caller: i'm a transplant. so, all right. so i asked you what you thought about dish network, you said you thought directv was a better-run company.

and they're a wide-reaching implications for a number of names, ebay as joe mentioned, google, visa, mastercard. >> well, i agree with joe. i think that in fact ebay i think is the best play for the space because you can't buy squared. it's not a publicly traded company. otherwise i would say i'm all-in with jack dorsey because of all the reasons you guys mentioned and a host of others. ebay with pay pal. that's the one you play. this is a widowmaker this stock. and the fact ubs downgraded them today and this deal is bad for them to joe's point also nxpi i think it hurts them as well. this was a deal that some of these big publicly traded companies needed none of them got it. jack dorsey did. hats off to you jack. >> joe, just give me your opinion we're discussing it from the mobile payment side of things. from the starbucks side of things, a real, you know, they're out there saying we embrace technology and where it's going. >> look, i mean, starbucks is going to spend. you know that. they're going to -- where they can't get organically they're going to buy it. but the question ultimately come

we'll hear from comcast, harley davidson, mastercard and time warner. >>> andrew, thank you. in corporate headlines, lab corp is reportedly the target of a massive private he can quit buyout. they say tgi capital and bain capital are a few that have the wherewithal to join hands to make a run at this company, which does lab testing. equity check of $3 billion to $4 billion would be expected for the deal. a market cap of $1.8 billion. >>> doingle is postponing a launch of the nexxus q. what it is, you're asking? it's the first -- the company's first self-designed and marketed consumer electronics device. the company announced delay of the media player, which is what it is, in an e-mail announced it would be delaying it to customers who had preordered it. google says it wants to add more features. >>> carl ikrstcahn is selling b mgm shares. he looks good there. not the most recent picture of carl icahn. >> what do you think that is, 10, 15 years? >> i would give that a 10 to 15 year number. he may have aged a little but his portfolio and net worth has aged in a way the finest w

. >> i had mastercards from all kinds of banks. and then you go to goldman sachs and pay them down. is that so bad? >> buying khakis every day. >> i never wanted today be poor again, ilied in the back of my car, i had a pistol, a bottle of jack daniels, and i didn't want to go back to that. >> you a harvard degree too. >> tell that to the sheriff when they pick you up for a robbery that's not you, and you say you went to harvard and you're living in your card. are you like roosevelt or something? when you're down and out in the this country there's no safety net. >> okay, coming up next, a stock worthy of your attention, we have it for you in cramer's mad dash. negative futures here at the home. more "squawk on the street" straight ahead. with the fidelity stock screener, you can try strategies from independent experts and see what criteria they use. such as a 5% yield on dividend-paying stocks. then you can customize the strategies and narrow down to exactly those stocks you want to follow. i'm mark allen of fidelity investments. the expert strategies feature is one more innovative

they want you to do it, this is also, a big break versus visa and mastercard. i like everything that's involved with payments ahead of time. i learned from my kids. because i'm way too old to understand this stuff. >> brings to mind, we had ebay on the show not too long ago, they said the notion of carrying a wallet with money around is going to seem as antiquated as reading a newspaper. the death of cash. >> i think the web is so much more powerful, still today, than people realize. facebook has obscured. groupon, another decline. these are aberrations. >> all right, straight ahead -- the head start you need from the opening bell. cramer's back. he's got his mad dash. a look at futures here, can we make a run back at 14000 today. we're going to lose it. more "squawk on the street" ahead. [ male announcer ] we've been through waterbeds, latex beds, and now beds infused with gel? but through all the fads, 6 million people have found their best night's sleep on something else. ask me about my tempur-pedic. ask me how fast i fall asleep. ask me about staying aslee

jeff tweets, mastercard because neither believes in carrying debt on their balance sheets and both monitor credit ratingings. and peter writes, darden because they don't have any international exposure. you wouldn't think that about a gop ticket in this day and age. i said something like whole foods because ryan's well-liked, trajectory's been pretty good. but there is risk of multiple contraction down the road. >> yes. i like that. >> bold bet. >> the first and only thing you really want to do with a vp is make sure they can be president. we have presidents that unfortunately get sick, die or get impeached and some actually when they're impeached actually leave office, like nixon, not clinton. >> like hbo. >> i don't know. >> my own opinion is that it's going to create a conversation now about policy whereas before we were talking about bain and tax returns and small ball. we were in small ball later in the game than usual. and this is going to change that. >> policy about a vice president instead of the presidential candidate. i can't really remember that ever happening. >> but there's a

supporting the pirate bay because this is a bit-torn piracy site, supporting wick i hraubgs because mastercard, visa and pay pal stopped funding services for wickileaks, supporting prodemocracy demonstrators in the middle east. often times the most dramatic operations done by people at anonymous are attacks against people who are trying to attack anonymous itself. the security contractor in february 2011 gave an interview to the financial times where the ceo said he had identified members of anonymous and its leadership. a group of annons went after this gentleman with vengeance and attacked his servers and installed thousands of -- and stole thousands of his e-mails and published them online. it was a devastating attack on his reputation and career. very demonstrative when it comes to the organization. >> do they exist today, are they still anonymous or have they been identified? >> certainly some supporters, very key organizers who have been anonymous have been identified because they've been arrested. the only other time that someone would be identified is if they had been doxed by someone