Metadata Inferencing Meme Goes Mainstream
Knock me down with a feather. As a techy blogging bystander, I’ve been watching as the non-technical media world figures out the implications of the …
Tag: social attribute network
We Told You So: FBStalker and Mining Facebook Connections
In late 2012, we interviewed NYU-Poly’s Professor Keith Ross about his research into privacy loopholes in Facebook. Ross showed it was possible to work out …
Metadata Chronicles: NYT Beginning to Realize the NSA Builds Social Attribute Network
It is interesting and vaguely rewarding in a bloggy kind of way to watch The New York Times start connecting the dots and realizing that …
Paul Revere’s Random Ride: Metadata And Social Attribute Networks
Like everyone else, I read Kieran Healy’s post on Paul Revere, the mostly highly connected person in Boston circa 1770. Healy, a sociologist at Duke, …