While copyrights concerning the text and derivative works may be protected, I am not sure how they might potentially use the information for cross-indexing and profiling.
Smart tagging of content linked to advertising would be a logical progression, and then it will be interesting to see how the spammers use this new tool to influence search result ratings along the lines of what sploggers have been doing.
Maybe this will lead to a whole new form of search engine spiking and click fraud where intelligent programs create thousands of accounts with cross referencing documents in order to skew indexing agents ("spubling" ??:-) ).
Meanwhile, I think people should be very wary of posting any confidential information - there simply is no guarantee that some other use may compromise it. At least if you have your own data stored on your own hard drive (with appropriate access, encryption, anti-spyware security protection, and no search engine helpers), you can be relatively assured that your bits are not roaming the Internet in some unauthorised form.
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While copyrights concerning the text and derivative works may be protected, I am not sure how they might potentially use the information for cross-indexing and profiling. Smart tagging of content linked to advertising would be a logical progression, and then it will be interesting to see how the spammers use this new tool to influence search result ratings along the lines of what sploggers have been doing. Maybe this will lead to a whole new form of search engine spiking and click fraud where intelligent programs create thousands of accounts with cross referencing documents in order to skew indexing agents ("spubling" ?? :-) ).
Meanwhile, I think people should be very wary of posting any confidential information - there simply is no guarantee that some other use may compromise it. At least if you have your own data stored on your own hard drive (with appropriate access, encryption, anti-spyware security protection, and no search engine helpers), you can be relatively assured that your bits are not roaming the Internet in some unauthorised form.