[IP] DOD going after social network sites

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
Date: June 9, 2006 8:21:07 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: DOD going after social network sites


(not exactly a new idea, but it will probably start to chill many folks
using such services....if they weren't paranoid yet, they might be
now.....rf)


New Scientist Magazine 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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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200?DCMP=NLC- 
nletter&nsref=mg
19025556.200





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