Aggregated Awareness

From PhysOrg.com comes a report that raises an eyebrow or two. The holy grail of intelligence gathering, has always been to know & discover social connections. With the sprouting of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, et al; a tool such as this will further entrench spying, intelligence gathering & espionage as more of a desk job, than about gathering 'on the ground' intelligence. Under such a scenario, misinformation is sure to abound...

 

Excerpt: "As social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube and Twitter increasingly make it possible to access appropriate information within their networks, a whole host of new applications become possible. For individuals, search engines could better differentiate "friends" and suggest groups with more closely matched interests or concerns. Businesses could search allowed information to offer products or services better matched to customers. And national security and counter-terror analysts, with appropriate court authorization, could look for "groups of people within social networks that match certain characteristics..."

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