Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Scrapers dig deep for data on the Web

Scary.

 
 

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via FlowingData by Nathan Yau on 10/17/10

In their continuation of what online marketers know about you, the Wall Street Journal reports on groups scraping pages and services to reveal identities and link pseudonyms to real names. "Social networks are becoming the new public records." My rule of thumb: if I put anything on the Web, I'm assuming it's public.


 
 

Things you can do from here:

 
 

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