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By: Google’s Social Graph API and privacy at Tech.Stormgrass

Google’s Social Graph API and privacy at Tech.Stormgrass — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:53:09 +0000

[...] light of recent discussions, especially the ones at the latest BarCamp, on Anaj’s blog or in Christian’s posting on 123people.com , I think these quotes from a Compiler entry on Google’s new Social Graph [...]

By: Maia Bittner

Maia Bittner — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:33:37 +0000

Hi all – Just wanted to comment that at Spock, we try to never show personal information like email addresses, phone numbers, or addresses, EVEN if we find them on the web. Furthermore, if anyone does find this information, they can flag it to have it immediately reviewed and removed by us (without signing up!) Privacy is possible – sites just need to commit to it!

By: lukas

lukas — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:24:21 +0000

i am a member of the 123people.com team. we are aware of the privacy topic and as you can imagine this is was a crucial part while creating the site.

we are planning to present 123people.com at the next vienna barcamp so we can have a vivid discussion on that then

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:46:17 +0000

right, some person search sites encourage users to sign up and “correct” their personal data. it’s imho almost like blackmailing – “if you don’t set up a profile and enter your real data we show anything we can find below your name”.

By: Allan Doyle

Allan Doyle — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:30:53 +0000

It never ends. They want you to sign up for their service, meaning that they collect a username, password, and IP address, at the very least. How many people change their usernames from site to site? How many change their passwords? I used to use the same password for many sites but stopped doing that a few years ago.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:13:37 +0000

no, didn’t attend that session at barcamp, unfortunately, must have been interesting.

I still believe in the illusion that everything published under my domain is under my control. well, at least once google cache frees my content…

anyone who wants to call me should ask for my phone number and not google it! and herold messed them totally up btw

By: rolf

rolf — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:28:15 +0000

spooky….
even for persons who dont have a blog i get a lot of details ….
and now i have your phone numer (if there is only one original spanring out there… )

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:56:49 +0000

Actually, there have been a few of those around now. Spock, Wink, Yasni.de, they all do the same, basically. Were you not at the discussion about that at BarCamp?

Anyway, I too think it’s a bit dangerous to have all that data aggregated. On the other hand, your blog servers as a hub for your data already, but the search engines are guessing. The results still contain far too much decoy to really be well suited for stalkers.

By: showdown in people search » nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive

showdown in people search » nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:22:48 +0000

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