[LINK] How does LinkedIn know my contacts?
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Mon Feb 11 14:12:32 AEDT 2013
At 14:02 +1100 11/2/13, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
>But now, twice within a couple of weeks, I have seen LinkedIn offer me
>connections to people I have only dealt with peripherally, on a private
>basis. ...
How private, I wonder.
Below is a post to the privacy list from earlier today, which reports
on developments in the social media surveillance industry.
And here's a para. from another post this morning:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-04/facebook-is-said-to-create-mobile-location-tracking-app.html
> Facebook already records the GPS coordinates of users when they post
> status updates or photos from their phones, or check in to a venue. With
> the new app, the company would go a step further by tracking user
> whereabouts in the "background" of Apple's mobile operating system, even
> when other programs are running or the phone isn't in use, one person said.
So spyware is one possible answer, and mass surveillance is another.
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Raytheon develops social network surveillance system
Juha Saarinen
Feb 11, 2013 7:38 AM (54 minutes ago)
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/331894,raytheon-develops-social-network-surveillance-system.aspx
Can predict movements.
Online privacy advocates have raised concerns about a software tool
developed to mine large amounts of data from social networks such as
Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter to track people for surveillance
purposes.
The software is called Raytheon Information Overlay Technology
Content Management Framework (RIOT/CMF) and has been developed since
2010 by the US defence contractor's Intelligence and Information
Systems division, which last year employed 8,300 and earned revenue
of US$3 billion.
According to an articel in The Guardian, which obtained a video
presentation from Raytheon, the RIOT/CMF software can provide a
snapshot of people's lives by analysing material they post to social
networks, extracting GPS position data from photographs posted with
smartphones to chart the places they have visited.
By working out regular movement patterns from the data, RIOT can be
used to predict where people will be at given times.
Software like RIOT/CMF raise concerns about how large amounts of
information can be covertly collected without oversight and
regulation, the US privacy advocate group EPIC told the Guardian.
A Raytheon spokesperson told the Guardian that "RIOT is a big data
analytics system design we are working on with industry, national
labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data
into usable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing
security needs."
The US company isn't alone in taking advantage of social networking
sites for information gathering purposes however.
In August last year, Sydney University released version two of its
Geometry for Maximum Insight or GEOMI tool, in development since 2005.
GEOMI is a data visualisation tool that lets police and security
organisations map and analyse complex relationships in social
networks, email and phone records.
Social networks are also mining their own data, with Facebook's new
Graph Search for instance creating controversy over how it can be
used to compromise users' privacy and in some cases, security.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has warned users to reassess their
privacy settings on Facebook to avoid being caught up in potentially
risky searches such as "family members of people who live in China
and like Falun Gong [a religious movement whose members are
persecuted by the country's government]". The EFF has called on the
social network to allow people to opt out of Graph Search.
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