Comments on: Gaydar, Facebook and privacy http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/10/06/gaydar-facebook-and-privacy/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:05:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Laurens Holst http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/10/06/gaydar-facebook-and-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-31134 Laurens Holst Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:32:56 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=2583#comment-31134 Another by the way, in the comment I wrote a ‘?’ rightwards arrow (U+2192), not a ‘?’ question mark. Another by the way, in the comment I wrote a ‘?’ rightwards arrow (U+2192), not a ‘?’ question mark.

]]> By: Laurens Holst http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/10/06/gaydar-facebook-and-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-31133 Laurens Holst Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:31:21 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=2583#comment-31133 Now imagine what Google could do with the information they have about us through AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, Google Analytics, Google Search, Youtube, Feedburner, Google Calendar, Google Latitude, Google Contacts, GMail, Picasaweb, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Street View, Google Chrome address bar searches, et cetera. Correction: what Google probably already does. They claim that they store information by IP (and browser cookies), and that this does not uniquely identify a person. Of course, combined with the data they have, that claim is complete bullshit. The only pattern I see in Google acquisitions is to gather as much personal data as possible. By the way, ‘seeting’ ? ‘setting’. Now imagine what Google could do with the information they have about us through AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, Google Analytics, Google Search, Youtube, Feedburner, Google Calendar, Google Latitude, Google Contacts, GMail, Picasaweb, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Street View, Google Chrome address bar searches, et cetera.

Correction: what Google probably already does. They claim that they store information by IP (and browser cookies), and that this does not uniquely identify a person. Of course, combined with the data they have, that claim is complete bullshit. The only pattern I see in Google acquisitions is to gather as much personal data as possible.

By the way, ‘seeting’ ? ‘setting’.

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