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Data Miners Scraping Away Our Privacy

Posted by Soulskill on from the hopefully-they-get-trapped-in-a-chilean-digitial-mine dept.

Presto Vivace writes "Twig, writing for Corrente, reports on data scrapers. They are not looking for passwords and such; scrapers are looking at blogs and forums searching for material relevant to their corporate clients. We are assured that the information is 'anonymized' to protect the identities of forum participants. However, a tool called PeekYou permits users to connect online names with real world identities. No worries, though — if you have a week to spare, you can opt-out of some of the larger data banks."

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  1. Re:Data miners can't to this unilaterally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It takes your help. It is not like they are sneaking into my house and going through my underwear.

    Not sure you should be making those kind of assumptions.

  2. Re:PeekYou fail by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny, I just got ready to type in my name, finished the first name, and then thought, "Hey... wait a second..." and then closed the window.

    Don't worry. I typed in your name and came up with a number of hits,