I'm going to be blunt, that is fucking creepy. And I'm of the male gender, don't have a Facebook, use ghostery/adbock/encrypted linux.<p>Combine this with phone location (GPS/GLONOSS/aGPS) and you know where they are at all times too. Suddenly the government is very interested. Want to know exactly who was at the protest between 1211 and 1434? Want to know if a certain person is at another persons house say 1600 Pennsylvania Ave at a certain time?<p>Oh, and the Feds are building a gigantic data centre (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center</a>) staffed by what can only be assumed to be former Mormon missionaries who speak damn near every language on the planet...talk about scaling the police state global. What other reason would they have to do this?<p>1984 is more like 2014.<p>Disclaimer: I am on my second glass of Côtes du Rhône.
This article was posted just a couple of weeks ago.<p>Link to previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5415691" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5415691</a>
nice illustration of a practical use for the graph search. definitely chilling though. Very much reminds me of the Sight short film: <a href="http://vimeo.com/46304267" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/46304267</a>
>>The truth is that the plethora of information Facebook knows about you is unfathomable.<p>It literally is.<p>What is really scary is that, even if you as an individual decide to withhold some information in your profile, that information can still be determined, with very high accuracy, by analyzing your friends. For example, if you don't tell Facebook where you live, someone can just use the API to analyze your new friends' locations and figure out your general geographic area.<p>Forget ads. In the grand scheme of things, ads don't matter. What matters is that there is absolutely no way anyone can use Facebook and still remain a private individual. And the implications of this are already changing society in fundamental ways (some positive, but mostly negative).