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    Facebook: CIA, Semantic Search and City Recruiting Goes too Far.

    US Scrambles for Information on Iran
    New York Times - United States
    ... crisis in the same ways private citizens do: viewing amateur videos on youtube and combing posts on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. ... See all stories on this topic

    I can just see it now, CIA paramilitary counterterrorist operatives hunched over a computer screen in a dark underground super secret military vase searching Facebook seeing who’s in a relationship with who, who poked who. There’s gotta be a scifi short story in there somewhere.

    Semantic Search Engine Gets Help from Facebook Friends ...
    By Dana Oshiro
    Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it's incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies. Essentially, machines just don't get it. This is ...
    ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/

    Along the lines of the CIA there are other info junkies that have to be drooling over all the rich relationship data filling the corners of sites like Facebook.

    Montana Town Stops Asking Applicants for Facebook Logins
    Wall Street Journal - USA
    While job seekers are often warned that recruiters will be looking at their profiles on Facebook and MySpace, it is far more rare to be asked for a login to ... See all stories on this topic

    It’s one thing to do a background check on publicly available information but this? There’s no way in hell I’d ever give my city the login info for any of my accounts. That just seems… illegal(?)

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    Post-Social. Futurist.
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    Expat from Seattle, living in London.
    Husband of Jen. Father of 3.

    This is a collection of notes, thoughts and pics that I've created, collected and then scattered across the Web.

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