Posts Tagged ‘data privacy’

Sudbury Hydro Inc Merger? Be Careful What Your Searches Reveal

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

I find this slightly amusing – looking over my Google Analytics for this blog, I ran across someone who’d typed into Google the keyword phrase, “writing a memo to employees advising them of a merge”. That’s not all that surprising since I’ve been writing about a theoretical merger between AT&T, SuperMedia, and Dex One yellow pages companies.

But, the phrase caught my attention, because it looked like the sort of query someone inside a corporation might search upon while doing research on how to announce a merger to their employees. Could this reveal imminent merger announcement from those companies I’d been writing about?

So, I clicked to see the network of the person who came to my blog on that phrase, (more…)

Spokeo Latest Personal Data Aggregator Exposing Data Privacy Fears

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

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Spokeo appears to be the latest player in the personal data aggregator space, mashing up public data, web search results and social media to generate profiles about people and home addresses.

Spokeo.com - A people search data aggregator

Spokeo.com - A people search data aggregator

The concept isn’t new, although adding on social media contents further broadens the dimensions of content that could be compiled about an individual. (more…)