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Re: [privacy] Pentagon Sets its Sights on Social Networking Sites
From: Andrew <andrewwilly () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:27:04 -0700
Fergie wrote:
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.
Social networking? Like Myspace? That would doom CIA credibility. An example resulting profile: Name: Eugene Headly Hobbies: Race car driving, rock guitarist, poet, pilot, cage fighter, playing the tuba Status: Rich Age: 17, or 21, or 30 Bank: First Farmers and Merchants, sub-account of Marge Headly, mother Property: None Recent retail history : EB Games Notes: Harvested social data combined with public records indicate Mr. Headly is an American secret agent employed at a Dairy Queen on Route 7. He is involved in a serious, sexual relationship with a cheerleader from a nearby town, name unknown. Mr. Headly filed taxes under his guardian's ID last year, reporting $1,300 in income, but apparently earned another 1.6 million as a film producer and professional skateboarder. Agency Summary: Mr. Headly's intimate knowledge of the deadly art of kung-fu constitutes a serious threat. Recommend surveillance. Andrew _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] Pentagon Sets its Sights on Social Networking Sites Dude VanWinkle (Jun 09)
- Re: Re: [privacy] Pentagon Sets its Sights on Social Networking Sites Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 09)
- Re: Re: [privacy] Pentagon Sets its Sights on Social Networking Sites Drsolly (Jun 10)
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- Re: [privacy] Pentagon Sets its Sights on Social Networking Sites Doug Pearson (Jun 10)