[Air-l] Google scares me again

[Tom Shelley]

This is such a pertinent area of discussion. On Project Red Stripe (the
Economist's internet innovation unit) we were looking at many different
areas where we could develop services, and the magic really happens when you
start aggregating the data of individuals. The psychological profiling of
users will happen in the not too different future, I believe. It will be
able to serve you exactly the content/people/job opportunities you like
(think Last.fm but for everything) but it is also *somewhat* of an ethical
minefield.

On 7/8/07, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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