New Scientist Technology - Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

New Scientist Technology - Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites: "New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming 'semantic web' championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
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'You should always assume anything you write online is stapled to your resumé. People don't realise you get Googled just to get a job interview these days,' says Callas."