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I hate data harvesting, and I refuse to use your service.
How are you working to make sure that I own my data and I can control which paths it moves along?
(between me to you to other users, to companies, to government agencies, creepily etc.)
There are a lot of services out there asking me to get involved and share with users inside their gated community (facebook, twitter, gmail, myspace, spock etc.), but there still isn't a way for me to retain control of and manage that data.
My suggestion is to create a service that acts a Information Banking Institution. It will broker all my interactions with every service on the web. Kind of like Zone Alarm for the web. If anyone has a better analogy, please let me know.
Thanks for ridin wit meh on this.
(between me to you to other users, to companies, to government agencies, creepily etc.)
There are a lot of services out there asking me to get involved and share with users inside their gated community (facebook, twitter, gmail, myspace, spock etc.), but there still isn't a way for me to retain control of and manage that data.
My suggestion is to create a service that acts a Information Banking Institution. It will broker all my interactions with every service on the web. Kind of like Zone Alarm for the web. If anyone has a better analogy, please let me know.
Thanks for ridin wit meh on this.
I’m making a BM for data miners
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I may be that friend!
And on that note, does the site Rapleaf fall under data harvesting? I Google'd myself a week or two ago (yes narcissism-o) and found a listing with my name. The 'service' maintains my 'Rapleaf Reputation,' lists my hometown and provides a link to every social network I've participated in, not to mention my friggin Amazon wishlist!
I find this insanely intrusive. For me to 'manage' this information, I have to register on their site. WTF! How does this not break some kind of privacy act?
Though I suppose I should have never signed up for any social network in the first place. I deleted my Yelp and I uncomfortably stare at my 'Delete Profile?!' button on Myspace for hours on end.
When my four year old cousin can basically make a rapid fire assessment of my life within seconds, I cringe.
I’m paranoid!
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this solves the problem
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Spock understands if you are uncomfortable with your information being on the Web. Please see our About Page which gives you steps on how to maintain and check where you are on the Web. Unfortunately to fully remove yourself from everything this includes a lot of paperwork and time.
Our suggestion is to use Spock as a launching pad for all the areas you're on the web. With Spock you can control the information that's presented about you by using the voting triangles to vote down erroneous information.
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this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?Spock understands if you are uncomfortable with your information being on the Web. Please see our About Page which gives you steps on how to maintain and check where you are on the Web. Unfortunately to fully remove yourself from everything this includes a lot of paperwork and time.
Our suggestion is to use Spock as a launching pad for all the areas you're on the web. With Spock you can control the information that's presented about you by using the voting triangles to vote down erroneous information.
4 people say
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?but that's really just goading users to update and perfect the data, making it more valuable to Spock, and others, who find personal data with the highest level of verifiable accuracy incredibly valuable.
participating on a site like this and actively moderating the factuality of my own info, is just doing the work that should be much harder to do for insurance companies, government agencies, and other data harvesters who are taking this data and scraping it for free.
the more accurate our personal information is, the more public we all are forced to become.
I’m still not satisfied.
2 people say
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?Because you have the ability to list as much or as little information as you like, and the fact that Spock sends you a notification if anything has been changed, there is actually very little maintenance necessary. While there is certainly information that most people would prefer to maintain private, I don't really see the harm of posting where you went to school, your hometown, your dogs name, etc. Recruiters use our site all the time to fill vacancies.
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this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?My school, hometown and dogs name are all challenge questions for my bank account, lol.
I’m not sure that data is so harmless.
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Inappropriate?Damn, was hoping you wouldn't notice. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, or in the wise words of Ron Burgundy "When in Rome". I personally think finding yourself on the web is inevitable and that Spock is a cool service that you can use for both fun and professional purposes. That said you don't have to be on Spock to enjoy it, but if you want to get the most out of the site it helps to sign up.
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Inappropriate?I'm with you on this. My dog had his identity stolen and it took me thousands of dollars to salvage his credit.
J.O.D, you can control the information you put on Spock. It's not smart to put your SSN on your search result, but things like hobbies, interests, occupation, etc. are general but good information. Users can use this to find and connect with you.
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this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?Something similar to ClaimID and OpenID, I think, is better for human kind. They let you broker your data and control the publicity or privacy of the information that they sit on. If a website is asking for info about a user, it simply prompts that user to grant access or deny access. Although the main application for this is log-in authentication, I think its a great model for people to retain ownership of info-valuables.
On a side-note. I did a quick search for one of my friends with a unique name and it listed him as female despite all the information from his Flickr and other sites hosting him reporting the oppositie (male). If that's not bait for him to sign up and change it, I don't know what is, but how does he benefit from that participation in a meaningful way? The personal utility, to me, is dubious, but to Spock and companies who love accuracy this is a buhbuh$$$$ boon.
I’m fanning the flames up on yah.
1 person says
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?I may be that friend!
And on that note, does the site Rapleaf fall under data harvesting? I Google'd myself a week or two ago (yes narcissism-o) and found a listing with my name. The 'service' maintains my 'Rapleaf Reputation,' lists my hometown and provides a link to every social network I've participated in, not to mention my friggin Amazon wishlist!
I find this insanely intrusive. For me to 'manage' this information, I have to register on their site. WTF! How does this not break some kind of privacy act?
Though I suppose I should have never signed up for any social network in the first place. I deleted my Yelp and I uncomfortably stare at my 'Delete Profile?!' button on Myspace for hours on end.
When my four year old cousin can basically make a rapid fire assessment of my life within seconds, I cringe.
I’m paranoid!
3 people say
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?I would not even classify Spock as the reaper of what they sew.
I think making all this information public and centralizing it, exposes way too much about an individual to companies and governments. Computers scrape data, it's how you get spam, and with the same methodology, crappy entities will abuse and screw you electronically.
I’m frustrated, Spock.
2 people say
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?"Unfortunately to fully remove yourself from everything this includes a lot of paperwork and time. "
lol.
2 people say
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?The real question is are you a good friend for not changing the information that your friend was a female when you had the ability to? We don't make assurances that we have 100% true information, however we feel that we generally do a good job in creating an easy to view platform for people search, and that the information you see is generally true.
If you want to look further into fully removing yourself from everything check out Spock's about page (http://www.spock.com/do/pages/online_...). Remember that you can still be on a variety of Social Networking sites without being concerned about being Spammed. Look into a what security settings a site offers and go from there.
