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Google Researchers Warn of Automated Social Info Sharing

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow, what a boring idiot you are.

  2. Hey, Libertarians! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Guess what, you insufferable nincompoops? Our government is itself the product of a market system. Cities like New York, London, and San Francisco are successful precisely *because* of their enormous governments--they compete for capital, talent and prestige against cities with small, ineffectual governments that are unable to effectively lure and corral said capital, talent and prestige. And as goes the city, so go city-states and nations: Somalia, being a libertarian paradise, is a rather unpleasant place to live for non-ideologues. Somalians, those who can, vote with their feet and leave.

    Now go suckle Ayn Rand's rotten tits some more and leave the rest of us alone, you stupid fucking Paultards.

  3. Says google who can track you through out the web by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Given the amount of data that google indexes, the amount of tracking that they can do, I'm not surprised that Google doesn't know who you are already. Every one of google's services gives google more information about you-- each search query which is stored forever is another datapoint of your interestes. Gmail/gtalk/reader allows them to snoop into your conversations and informs them of the things you actually respond to. Doubleclick and their antiphishing services informs them each website you go to. IP tracking and google maps gives them a good idea where you live. Grandcentral gives them your phone number. If you have used google checkout, they have your real name and address on file. Who needs the NSA when you have google?

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