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Google Researchers Warn of Automated Social Info Sharing
holy_calamity writes "Researchers from Google have written a paper about how social networks can undermine privacy. The most interesting scenario they discuss is 'merging social graphs' — when correlating multiple social networks makes it possible to reveal connections that a person has intentionally kept secret (PDF). For example, it may be possible to work out that a certain LinkedIn user is the same person as a MySpace user, despite their attempting to keep their profiles separate. The Google solution is to develop software that screens new data added to a social network, attempting to find out if it could be fodder to such data mining."
I thought Google would be the ones undermining privacy in this case...
1's and 0's should be free.
Google warning of privacy issues is like an arsonist holding a can of gas and a lit match shouting FIRE in an already burning theater.
Yes, they are helping protect privacy by developing software that can... Help undermine privacy.
Wow. I hope my Facebook girlfriend doesn't find out about my MySpace girlfriend.
"Live as if you'll die tomorrow." Ridiculous. You could die later today.
No no no, they're data mining data for data-mineable data. I like the way google thinks.
And yet you're posting as AC. :p
Fuck privacy!
"by Anonymous Coward"