I have to keep it very short, or I'll be late for work, but I have to wonder if there is anyone who
didn't see this coming?
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
Okay, it's not here yet, as the article explains much better than I could. So I guess that gives everybody some time to delete their MySpace profiles, except for that other thing where the administration is trying to force internet companies to keep records for two years...
Is this really the "unstoppable" future?