Graduate students from Stanford and Cornell universities claim that they have developed a computer program that can detect an internet troll with 80% accuracy just by analyzing their first five posts online. The accuracy goes up to 90% after analyzing the first ten posts for a user. The research studied comment threads on the CNN, […]
A new generation of mini wearable and throwable video cameras is turning every citizen into a modern day Big Brother, with the ability to spy on and video record other people. Never before have so many people been recorded and never before have so many people had the ability to record others thanks to the […]
In a ruling that could radically change the way IP addresses and geolocation information is used to identify people in court cases, a Florida judge has decided something that many of us have known for a long time: an IP address is not enough information to identify an individual person. In a court case involving […]
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News about Facebook’s disturbing interest in people’s personal information is nothing new. As the world’s largest social network, their large knowledge base and social graph of people is well known. However, Facebook’s recent efforts to collect data on every many, woman and child seem to be establishing the popular social network as the mother ship […]
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Some members of Congress want to pass a law regulating data brokers that collect and sell consumer contact and demographic information. This consumer information is the main source of data for the burgeoning people search and background check services that can be found everywhere on the internet nowadays. Over the past several years, the people […]