Re: Facebook

[Cal Leeming <cal () foxwhisper co uk>]

Forgive me for being dense but, what does "non-Amish exceptions" means??

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Michael Simpson <mikie.simpson () gmail com>wrote:

> On 4 May 2011 04:59, phil <jabea () jabea net> wrote:
> > I don’t agree, google is by far the biggest database of what user want
> and
> > look for. If you merge those database (google) and facebook that must
> make
> > some leet profiling. (especially when you think that you can easily find
> > where someone live with phone directory and you can match the ip by
> sector
> > too to match the google database)
>
> "some leet profiling"
> if you look at what netflix (supposedly anonymised) + imdb was able to
> do, or the classic of AOL releasing their searches (again anonymised)
> then a join of google with facebook is quite a scary prospect.
> Especially as d of b + partial zip/postcode allows for
> re-identification most of the time (i believe that d of b + state =
> 85% re-identification).
> It wouldn't just be a selective subset but pretty much who, where,
> when and probably why without too many non-Amish exceptions.
>
> mike
>
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