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Cool idea, but the first two comments on SW's blog post are about privacy and data usage. I admit I have some concerns as well. What's Wolfram's policy about p

• aw3c2 14y ago
  http://www.wolframalpha.com/privacypolicy.html http://www.wolframalpha.com/privacypolicy.html While they say they do not sell, rent, or lease your information to third parties they do not say they delete it. So if you let them get your facebook data, they will have and keep it. No-go for me. This is a perfect example of why I prefer applications that run "locally" on my computer. There seems to be nothing in this report that would not be possible to do with a combination of open-source solutions.
  • theorique 14y ago
    Perhaps they are looking to legally replicate some fraction of Facebook's corpus of user data. Wolfram (the person, and by extension the company) really seems to have gotten very interested in personal metrics in the last few years.
• gacba 14y ago
  From the link provided below the analysis tool (http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/): Come back again! Fresh data = new results every time! Your information is only stored for one hour, so each time you return, we'll run fresh analytics on your Facebook data.
  • theorique 14y ago
    Cool, thanks!