Personal information from social
networks, blogs and photo albums, dating sites, music and video sites, eCommerce stores, and real-time web services like Google Earth are all compiled
to single out each individual in the US, and most of the connected modern
world. The compiling of information has now come of age and is being utilized
by the new owners of planet Earth. Is it for the common good? Well, that is
laughable.
Spokeo collects data from both
online and offline sources, and uses a special software package to compile it.
Though it is not clear yet where all of the information is coming from,
Wikipedia indicates the two main resources to be MySpace and Facebook.
"Various aggregation services
provide tools or widgets to allow users to consolidate messages, track friends,
combine bookmarks, search across multiple social networking sites, read RSS feeds for multiple social networks, see when their name is
mentioned on various sites, access their profiles from a single interface,
provide "life streams", etc." -Wikipedia.
Information for similar social
networks like Twitter, Youtube, Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious, and other major platform communities communicate in real
time by an API (Application Programming Interface) application. It is a
crossing point between different software programs and facilitates real time
information stream with speedy communication. When permission is given by a
user id and password, each social media is then considered
"syndicated" and a user's information becomes public and accessible.
Examples of such clients are Doozly, Sobees and Sociagg.
One might put two and two together
by the revelation that Facebook, now with over 600 million active users are
owned by Google since 2008. It was purchased at a stock and cash value of 25
billion. "We feel this accurately reflects Microsoft's market share in the
Web 2.0 economy," Schmidt said, Google CEO.
Schmidt indicated that it was
because of good people jumping ship from Google to Facebook as the primary
reason for the acquisition, now owning 98.4 percent of Facebook.
"With the acquisition of
Facebook, users will be able to take advantage of Open Social applications
across all the major social networks on the planet," he said. "We'll
be able to incorporate Facebook apps directly into Android, our new mobile operating
system. And, frankly, we were losing too many of our
top people to Facebook. So now they're all
back where they belong. Forever."
One might question why Goldman Sachs
is so interested in Facebook. Is it because of the people they are acquiring,
or the unprecedented amount of personal information? Information seems to be
the primary tool of a New World Order, where knowledge is the fuel for a
dominate machine to lucratively forge ahead.
Author's note: The 600 million on
Facebook are connected to the rest of the planet by a grid of epic proportions,
now easily acessable by the new owners of planet Earth. Control also comes with
responsibility, so easily relinquished when your banking and business
consortium makes money of both war and peace, deconstruction and
reconstruction, with puppets willing to die to make it happen. Rather Freudian,
don't you think?
Want to undo Spokeo? Go here. It is a
well researched vid with a lot of insight! You can fight back.
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