THEY are watching your social-media sites!

Will no one escape the long arm of Spock?

by Rupert Sharp
of http://www.oyster-web.co.uk

Last updated: 19 Sep 2007

A search-engine with a difference, Spock.com is the end of privacy and online 'hidey-holes'. Now you and your lucky friends can have everything you've ever said about yourselves or anyone else displayed publicly for every Tom, Dick and Harry to drool over (who are probably indexed somewhere in there as well). Basically the Spock-spider crawls social media sites such as Myspace and general profiles located online and then glues data from different sources together. It then harvests the main key points from the crawled information e.g. age, country of birth, interests, and then displays the most likely facts as tags to group you with other people with similar information.

Paranoid yet? You should be. Expressing your views and beliefs in a profile now will be catalogued like search results in Google to be viewed by everyone; including possible employers, the government, and your friends and family. Seems a bit American cop-show like doesn't it? An enormous database of everyone whose ever been born but that's the reality. I have a feeling there are going to be a few unhappy people talking about this new 'shadow in the background'.
Keep your details safe people.