nice illustration of a practical use for the graph search. definitely chilling though. Very much reminds me of the Sight short film: http://vimeo.com/46304267
You have a very optimistic view of human nature then :) He didn't do anything much out of bounds, but it's very easy to imagine how a less scrupulous/more obsessed person would be able to use this.
At the risk of being tautological, I think it's chilling because if he told the 10 girls he "doxed" about what he had done, I'm pretty confident a sizeable number of them would have the chills.
People don't like to feel like they're being taken advantage of, which would be a pretty common reaction to finding out someone had done all of this profiling on you to get you to go out with them.
It's not outright nefarious, because, what is he really doing that's different from a dating site filtering results by your criteria; except that these aren't people who have joined a dating site.
This sounds like the kind of thing Tim Ferris would recommend doing; asymmetrical information warfare in the battle of the sexes.
I have to agree with this. Yes, most people don't understand the enormous amount of data Facebook has, but in the next decade, it'll be common knowledge.
Between Glass and other projects, individuals will quickly realize how exposed they are and will either care (and these companies/groups will be forced to refocus on privacy like Facebook a year and a half a go) or everyone will just be 'OK' with it (like I am, I'm an open book, go for it).
I think sociology hasn't quite caught up with technology, and it'll be interesting to see where we go from here.
>>The truth is that the plethora of information Facebook knows about you is unfathomable.
It literally is.
What is really scary is that, even if you as an individual decide to withhold some information in your profile, that information can still be determined, with very high accuracy, by analyzing your friends. For example, if you don't tell Facebook where you live, someone can just use the API to analyze your new friends' locations and figure out your general geographic area.
Forget ads. In the grand scheme of things, ads don't matter. What matters is that there is absolutely no way anyone can use Facebook and still remain a private individual. And the implications of this are already changing society in fundamental ways (some positive, but mostly negative).
I'm going to be blunt, that is fucking creepy. And I'm of the male gender, don't have a Facebook, use ghostery/adbock/encrypted linux.
Combine this with phone location (GPS/GLONOSS/aGPS) and you know where they are at all times too. Suddenly the government is very interested. Want to know exactly who was at the protest between 1211 and 1434? Want to know if a certain person is at another persons house say 1600 Pennsylvania Ave at a certain time?
Oh, and the Feds are building a gigantic data centre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center) staffed by what can only be assumed to be former Mormon missionaries who speak damn near every language on the planet...talk about scaling the police state global. What other reason would they have to do this?
1984 is more like 2014.
Disclaimer: I am on my second glass of Côtes du Rhône.
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People don't like to feel like they're being taken advantage of, which would be a pretty common reaction to finding out someone had done all of this profiling on you to get you to go out with them.
It's not outright nefarious, because, what is he really doing that's different from a dating site filtering results by your criteria; except that these aren't people who have joined a dating site.
This sounds like the kind of thing Tim Ferris would recommend doing; asymmetrical information warfare in the battle of the sexes.
Between Glass and other projects, individuals will quickly realize how exposed they are and will either care (and these companies/groups will be forced to refocus on privacy like Facebook a year and a half a go) or everyone will just be 'OK' with it (like I am, I'm an open book, go for it).
I think sociology hasn't quite caught up with technology, and it'll be interesting to see where we go from here.
It literally is.
What is really scary is that, even if you as an individual decide to withhold some information in your profile, that information can still be determined, with very high accuracy, by analyzing your friends. For example, if you don't tell Facebook where you live, someone can just use the API to analyze your new friends' locations and figure out your general geographic area.
Forget ads. In the grand scheme of things, ads don't matter. What matters is that there is absolutely no way anyone can use Facebook and still remain a private individual. And the implications of this are already changing society in fundamental ways (some positive, but mostly negative).
Combine this with phone location (GPS/GLONOSS/aGPS) and you know where they are at all times too. Suddenly the government is very interested. Want to know exactly who was at the protest between 1211 and 1434? Want to know if a certain person is at another persons house say 1600 Pennsylvania Ave at a certain time?
Oh, and the Feds are building a gigantic data centre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center) staffed by what can only be assumed to be former Mormon missionaries who speak damn near every language on the planet...talk about scaling the police state global. What other reason would they have to do this?
1984 is more like 2014.
Disclaimer: I am on my second glass of Côtes du Rhône.
Let the game begin...