Google Researchers Warn of Automated Social Info Sharing

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 9, 2009 @01:10PM from the don't-post-what-you-want-kept-private dept.

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."

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Shout FIRE by retech · 2009-01-09 13:59 · Score: 4, Funny

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.
Social networking bigamy by Valacosa · 2009-01-09 14:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Wow. I hope my Facebook girlfriend doesn't find out about my MySpace girlfriend.

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