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Definitely the things Linkedin do are so much worse and creepier, just by looking at the people they recommend me to connect to, the level of offline tracking t
by fredliu 9y ago
Definitely the things Linkedin do are so much worse and creepier, just by looking at the people they recommend me to connect to, the level of offline tracking they must be doing are creepy beyond imagination.
- organsnyder 9y agoFacebook at times appears to be doing something similar. After spending a day in a conference room with a colleague that normally works from a different location, all of a sudden he was at the top of my "suggested friends" list.
- phy6 9y agoWe used the same temporal colocation analysis to find ships smuggling things at sea. ;)
- greggarious 9y agoWho is "we?" :)
- phy6 8y agoIt was one of many DARPA projects to see what can be done with the table scraps of open/unclassified data available. The ship beaconing data was in that category. As was uber sample data, backpage data, darkweb ecommerce, blockchain ledgers. We looked at ALL kinds of data, and tried fusing where we could. One target was human trafficking. https://www.google.com/search?q=memex+human+trafficking https://www.google.com/search?q=memex+human+trafficking
- bshimmin 9y agoI had a great one like this with LinkedIn recently - a client called me to discuss something and mentioned a third-party; I hadn't heard of them so asked if the client could send me some information; he sent me an email later that day with a link to the other company's web site, which I duly clicked and browsed around. The very next day, in my LinkedIn "People you may know" in the top row was a lead developer at that very same (tiny, otherwise totally unconnected to me) company.