[Air-l] Google scares me again

Jeremy Hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Sun Jul 8 15:10:35 PDT 2007


oh... it could be worse  Spock.com is a search engine that is  
predicated somewhat on the unity of identity of people.     It ties  
in as much of your publicly available info as it can into a profile:)


On Jul 8, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:

> When Google aggregates different social software types, how is it  
> going to
> handle the different amounts/kinds of disclosure that the different
> softwares now permit/forbid. Will it encompass Business software  
> such as
> Visible Path, Linked In or (cursed be its name), Plaxo.
>
>  Barry Wellman
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
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