Social Search, Too Personal?
May 2, 2010
Beware: every social search answers you provide could be monitored. The Otago Daily Times’ recent article, “How To Spy on Yourself,” clued readers into online phone book programs like Spokeo and PeekYou.com. These sites list everything from your name, birthday and family to hobbies, income and home address. The developers claim they do not pull data from social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace, so where does it come from? Turns out they have algorithms that scour public questionnaires, like those favored by many social search programs, to collect data and give total strangers a shocking amount of personal data. Social searches are a great wayto connect and learn, but consider who might be monitoring your entries.
Patrick Roland, May 2, 2010
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