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Guilty By Association

Posted by michael on from the hanging-out-with-a-bad-crowd dept.

dmf writes "News.com is running a little piece about Microsoft's forays into researching aspects of social computing. With AOL Buddy Lists, Yahoo Messenger, Friendster, and other mappable relationship environments, is it possible the information will soon be used against you? Scenarios such as governments tracking private citizens, investigating terrorist links, political groups finding potential donor lists, marketing departments finding affinity groups, and other easily imagined data mining opportunities could open the doors for information abuse and misinterpretation of individual ties. What implications can it bring in the future of the personal life?"

2 of 339 comments (clear)

  1. remember shiny side out by cyrax777 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When making your tinfoil hat remember its shiny side out.

  2. PLAGARIST!! MOD PARENT DOWN by scumbucketisaplagiar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This comment is a direct copy of this comment.
    scumbucket has a history of doing this.