I've always seen Klout as a laughable site, somebody's pipe dream that he could somehow, through an algorithm, classify everyone on the Internet. Google has bee

I've always seen Klout as a laughable site, somebody's pipe dream that he could somehow, through an algorithm, classify everyone on the Internet. Google has been working on that for data and hasn't even succeeded yet. But when reading these articles, like how Klout is making profiles for everyone it finds, including kids, without any kind of consent, and then linking those profiles on public persona's profiles, again without asking and with no way to remove it, then it becomes just an illicit practice that should be investigated for illegal behavior. Klout is making seem as if these people all agreed to participate, when it's not the case, which afaik is illegal.