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mattmeetstheinternet: theatlantic: When Trashing Your Boss on Facebook Suddenly Becomes Very Public Let me give you this hypothetical about privacy. You and a friend walk into a public subway station having a conversation about how much you hate your boss. Someone happens to be recording every word spoken listening for the search string “hate my boss” while running facial recognition software to figure out who you are. This information is then being posted in another public location for anyone and everyone to see. Would that be OK? My intuition is that almost everyone reading this post would say no. And yet, that is precisely what the website, WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com is doing with public Facebook updates. The site scrapes public Facebook updates and searches for people saying “hate my boss,” discussing doing drugs, giving out their phone numbers, or complaining about being hungover. It then handily formats them for broader consumption. Read more. [Image: weknowwhatyouredoing.com]

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theatlantic:

When Trashing Your Boss on Facebook Suddenly Becomes Very Public

Let me give you this hypothetical about privacy. You and a friend walk into a public subway station having a conversation about how much you hate your boss. Someone happens to be recording every word spoken listening for the search string “hate my boss” while running facial recognition software to figure out who you are. This information is then being posted in another public location for anyone and everyone to see. Would that be OK?

My intuition is that almost everyone reading this post would say no. And yet, that is precisely what the website, WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com is doing with public Facebook updates. The site scrapes public Facebook updates and searches for people saying “hate my boss,” discussing doing drugs, giving out their phone numbers, or complaining about being hungover. It then handily formats them for broader consumption.

Read more. [Image: weknowwhatyouredoing.com]

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