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Friday, June 09, 2006

This oughta send chills down your spine

like i said just a couple of posts ago, all the pieces are coming together...
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.

the only safe assumption is that anyone with the proper access can assemble a picture of your entire life that would not only astound you but would also reveal bits and pieces even YOU didn't know... anti-bush bloggers, beware...

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