[ga] Google Researchers Warn of Automated Social Info Sharing

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well at least Google has finally admitted to par to the truth of
what they have for few years now been doing...  I object to such
and hope that Sen. Fienstiens bill will address this sort of evasion
of privacy more fully and directly...  In the mean time, it seems
reasonable that the DOC recomend to ICANN that ICANN
direct Google to cease and disist this activity...

See:
Researchers from Google have written a paper about
 
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/01/what-your-social-network-can-r.html

how social networks can undermine privacy. The most interesting
scenario they discuss is 'merging social graphs'  when correlating
multiple social networks makes it possible to
http://w2spconf.com/2008/papers/s3p2.pdf reveal connections that
a person has intentionally kept secret (PDF). For example, it may be
possible to work out that a certain LinkedIn user is the same person as
a
MySpace user, despite their attempting to keep their profiles separate.
The Google solution is to develop software that screens new data added
to
a social network, attempting to find out if it could be fodder to such
data mining.

Regards,

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