NSA might be reading your Myspace
This is interesting.
Sad.
Sad for America.
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.
Data mining update
Sad.
Sad for America.
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.
Data mining update
posted by Scott | 11:30 AM
1 Comments:
I hope no one on myspace is suprised by this. Its just like the blogs, they are open to anyone so it should be expected that the government would snoop into them. Now Im not saying its a good thing. I'll be suprised if they find Bin laden on myspace, to put it mildly. I would also have thought that the NSA would have more important things to do with its time then check up on the personal lives of young people. I guess im just getting numb to the idea of government spying, that will probably change when I get dragged out of my home in the middle of the night by the men with no expressions.
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