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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Re:Hmm... by Klootzak · 2009-01-09 13:36 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yah, he SO is! /sarcasm>

Incidentally Electrolytes are reported to have the motto "Don't be Evil!" :)

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A Man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties -- Albert Einstein
What worries me... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-09 15:32 · Score: -1, Redundant

is that if I've been having different aliases, and I post tidbits of information on each forum / social network / etc... can they find out that those different aliases belong to ONE SAME PERSON?
That freaks me out, dude.