Saw this on Slashdot this morning. I knew there was a reason I've been avoiding MySpace and all the rest. From the story:
"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."
Watch out, Toes. Big Brother's got his eye on you.
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posted by dan @ 3:27 PM
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