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Feb. 5th, 2008 05:23 pmI just got this from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cluegirl, and it is seriously disturbing. Have any of you ever heard of spokeo.com? Nope? Me either. From the Newsweek article:
The site in question is Spokeo (spokeo.com), which promises that it "finds your friends' blogs and photos that you never knew about, guaranteed" and "tracks your friends' new content, so you don't have to visit their Websites one by one." What this means is that when you sign up for Spokeo, it uses the addresses from your Web-based e-mail accounts to create a list of "friends"—which, in practice, is just about anyone you've e-mailed. Then it proceeds to scan 36 popular sites with social features, pulling together everything your friends have posted into a single, easy-to-read format. All tidbits are fair game: LiveJournal blog posts, YouTube videos, even Amazon wish lists. Most disturbingly, Spokeo never notifies your contacts that you're watching them.
I, personally, find this really disturbing and a violation of privacy. Thank God someone's come up with a workaround.
This comes frommynn in an f-locked post on IJ. I've already done it and I'm considering setting up another e-mail for nothing but accounts, just to make sure.
1. While logged in as your account, go to the admin console here:
http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/
Minimize what is sent "out" via feed by entering this into the console and clicking execute:
set synlevel title
Then only the title of your posts are sent to the reader, and they have to log into LJ to read the post and "save it" manually if they want to.
cluegirl, and it is seriously disturbing. Have any of you ever heard of spokeo.com? Nope? Me either. From the Newsweek article:The site in question is Spokeo (spokeo.com), which promises that it "finds your friends' blogs and photos that you never knew about, guaranteed" and "tracks your friends' new content, so you don't have to visit their Websites one by one." What this means is that when you sign up for Spokeo, it uses the addresses from your Web-based e-mail accounts to create a list of "friends"—which, in practice, is just about anyone you've e-mailed. Then it proceeds to scan 36 popular sites with social features, pulling together everything your friends have posted into a single, easy-to-read format. All tidbits are fair game: LiveJournal blog posts, YouTube videos, even Amazon wish lists. Most disturbingly, Spokeo never notifies your contacts that you're watching them.
I, personally, find this really disturbing and a violation of privacy. Thank God someone's come up with a workaround.
This comes from
mynn in an f-locked post on IJ. I've already done it and I'm considering setting up another e-mail for nothing but accounts, just to make sure.1. While logged in as your account, go to the admin console here:
http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/
Minimize what is sent "out" via feed by entering this into the console and clicking execute:
set synlevel title
Then only the title of your posts are sent to the reader, and they have to log into LJ to read the post and "save it" manually if they want to.