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Well there is the worry that the more authoritarian organisations will be able to use these social networking software pieces to aggregate left wing groups, environmental groups, etc. As a strategy to avoid this it might be a good approach if you are a member of these sites to add some random people as chaff to their understanding.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 7th, 2010 at 04:49:05 PM EST
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In the US it's a given that various entities are data mining the internet.  At last report the number of false positives are giving them fits.  Some recent "information received" indicates they may be, in some manner, becoming more efficient.  They could have done this using non-standard, but known, computer information processing and decision making procedures without a leap in Information Processing Theory.

So ...

If you are reading this the probability of your internetting becoming part of a file is ever so-slightly increased by talking to US citizens.

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 7th, 2010 at 05:01:40 PM EST
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