Who's Sorry Now?
Please, people, STOP with the online oversharing. The NSA is now looking at YOUR data to learn more about you. And you happily provided the information to them. Know that your data is out there, to be used by anyone for anything. It's kind of funny to read stories about people whose employer finds out about little "mishaps" in your college years, or whatever.
It's quite another thing to realize that the Pentagon is looking at MySpace (oh, and add in LinkedIn, Rize, etc. on the business networking side) to extrapolate information about you that you may not want people to know. Also, with the AI involved, the information can then be cast to predict with you "might" do; or who you "might" know. here
"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software. He is far from alone in noticing that fast-growing social networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster are a snoop's dream. New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals."
Please, people, STOP with the online oversharing. The NSA is now looking at YOUR data to learn more about you. And you happily provided the information to them. Know that your data is out there, to be used by anyone for anything. It's kind of funny to read stories about people whose employer finds out about little "mishaps" in your college years, or whatever.
It's quite another thing to realize that the Pentagon is looking at MySpace (oh, and add in LinkedIn, Rize, etc. on the business networking side) to extrapolate information about you that you may not want people to know. Also, with the AI involved, the information can then be cast to predict with you "might" do; or who you "might" know. here
"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software. He is far from alone in noticing that fast-growing social networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster are a snoop's dream. New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals."
