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Wed, 27 Aug 2003
FOAF confluence
Today Shelley Powers and Leigh Dodds posted regarding the social aspects of information, in particular, the possibility that someone would build an information smushing tool.
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Whenever you publish any data on the web, even simply posting to a mailing list with a public archive, you're releasing information that could be used to profile you. I could build a tool to smush together information about mailboxes from mail archives without FOAF. FOAF just makes this data, and the act of publication, more explicit. FOAF is therefore a showcase for the kind of issues that are going to be increasingly important in the future (now, even); it's not necessarily a problem for FOAF to solve, IMO.It also happened that today Joi Ito used such a tool to find identity related information needed to merge frequent flyer miles accounts. The name of that tool: Google.
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