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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. Data Miners... by vlueboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are these the 33 gold miners Chile saved from doom 2 days ago? Wow. Skills transfer in awesome ways these days.