July 3, 2006

Government to data mine social networking web sites

Filed under: Privacy — Conspiracy Theory @ 6:55 pm

An ominous article by the New Scientist predicts a new wave of privacy violations:

"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."

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