Steve Lohr's recent article on the privacy implications of data mining
social networks points out how social connections can be mined to find
out non-trivial and very private information. Taken to the
extreme we could imagine that a person's social connections or other
bits of information revealed
on-line could be correlated with other data and eventually lead to the
divulgence of "inappropriate" information: for instance, a seemingly benign stock
question might actually be perfectly correlated with say political
affiliation or sexual orientation. In the near future common
situations like job interviews may represent a moral minefield
in the nature and type of unintentional information disclosure.
Dov Greenbaum
Mark Gerstein
Unpublished letter in response to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/technology/17privacy.html
How Privacy Vanishes Online
By STEVE LOHR
Published: March 16, 2010
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