In the book Super Crunchers, Acxiom Corporation is described as “one of the biggest companies you’ve never heard of”. Acxiom is a personal data aggregator that collects consumer information on nearly every household in the United States and maintains a database mine of over twenty billion personal records. Acxiom’s data mine of information is over […]
A British woman was shocked to find out that live images of her bedroom were viewable on a travel news site. A security camera used for traffic monitoring was pointed at her bedroom and recording. Filmed images on the site were so detailed that the pillows on her bed were easily identifiable. The woman described […]
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WhitePages people search ( www.whitepages.com ) announced last week that they will add social network profiles from Twitter and Facebook to their people search engine. Users will now be able to search for a person’s phone number and address as well as profile pages on Facebook and Twitter for people. Whitepages hopes the addition of […]
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California’s Contra Costa county has implemented a new “data-mining” system that warns authorities of possible welfare fraud so authorities can catch individuals and groups before they steal large sums of money from the government. The new data mining system is designed to stop public assistance cheats and help prosecutors with fraud investigations. In a recent […]
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A report by online ad network Millenial Media shows that, despite the bad economy, mobile web users are increasingly visiting online dating sites during the holidays. Millenial Media is one of the largest mobile ad networks and their records show that peoples’ response levels with advertising for online dating services grew 19 percent during the […]
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