My life while the world spins madly on...

Thoughts arising while working as a scientist or just randomly spinning from my brain.

I don't give a damn, I'm happy as a clam, nobody knows me at all

[This and the section title borrowed from the Weepies - great lyrics.]

Everything here is just what I think and does not represent opinion of my employer or anybody else. See the Impressum.

Monday, 3 September 2012

scary: a way to track and profile all your friends on Facebook (and get your data out to even more companies)

Wolfram Alpha is apparently now offering a tool to datamine Facebook Timelines (http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2012-09/wolfram-alpha-facebook). One gets not only profiles of own 'movements' but also extensive stats about friends (like everything!). Data is of course also transferred to and kept at Wolfram servers then...

Wolfram Alpha bietet jetzt eine Software an, mit der man Facebooks Timeline durchforsten kann (http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2012-09/wolfram-alpha-facebook). Man bekommt nicht nur das eigene Profil, sondern auch alles wissenswerte über die eigenen Freunde (alles!). Die Daten werden auf Wolfram Servern gespeichert - für später mal...

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