When Metadata Analytics Goes Awry 88
jfruh writes "When blogger Dan Tynan started seeing lots of Latvians in his LinkedIn People You May Know list, it was pretty funny, considering he'd never been to Latvia or ever met anyone from there. But now that shadowy spy agencies are using algorithms similar to LinkedIn's to see if we're terrorists, mistakes like this are a lot scarier. From the article: 'More than ever -- and online in particular -- who you know can be more important than who you are. In fact, who somebody thinks you know may be more important than who you are, especially if that somebody is a faceless government bureaucracy with limitless power to izjaukt savu dzvi (mess up your life).'"
There is a simple cure (Score:5, Insightful)
Stop using social media. Some of the crud I've seen on LinkedIn is as bad as Facebook and I do not want to be associated with it.
Side Note: If you do use LinkedIn; it is not a dating site. Some of my female colleagues have started complaining about unwanted attention. Just because she met you at that training class last month, and accepted your connection, does not mean she is interested in 'knowing' you. Sheesh.
real question (Score:3, Insightful)
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