I think you summarized it best when you said ". . . only the data you give them in the first place." The idea of photo tagging, web bugs, and social network graphs is that they collect data about me that I did not give them.
Even though you probably didn't even notice that picture I took of you with my cell phone, I can upload it to Facebook and tag it so that next time a prospective employer checks your background it's easy to find. Without any context, it sure looks bad. When Eric "privacy is not important" Schmidt thinks something is creepy, I take notice. http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/google-says-facial-recognition-creepy-131783 Richard On Tuesday May 24 2011 12:57:53 Joshua Lutes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Richard Esplin > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > I think photo tagging is really creepy. > > > Why? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
