It’s Your Space, Right? Nuh-Uh.
Jun 30th, 2024 by Madeline Glass
As if you needed another reason to omit certain details from your public MySpace profile: New Scientist.com reports that the National Security Agency is, in addition to monitoring phone calls,funding research into collecting personal information from social networking sites.
By adding online social networking data to its phone analyses, the NSA could connect people at deeper levels, through shared activities, such as taking flying lessons. Typically, online social networking sites ask members to enter details of their immediate and extended circles of friends, whose blogs they might follow. People often list other facets of their personality including political, sexual, entertainment, media and sporting preferences too. Some go much further, and a few have lost their jobs by publicly describing drinking and drug-taking exploits. Young people have even been barred from the orthodox religious colleges that they are enrolled in for revealing online that they are gay.
“You should always assume anything you write online is stapled to your resumé. People don’t realise you get Googled just to get a job interview these days,” says Callas.
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(Via BoingBoing)