Here's a curious site. Want to know which bits of you are now freely available on the web?
Try keying in your name.
Go on.
You know you can't resist the temptation.
Out of curiosity, is this simple pulling together of public domain information into one easy-to-access place ever going to constitute an act of aggression against the identity of an individual? Especially if the identity thus drawn-up is demonstrably inaccurate or misleading?
I wonder.
Can't blame an algorithm, can we?
And why not? An algorithm is a tool - and a tool but an extension of humankind. Thus it is that what is an extension of humankind is an act not of God but man and woman.
Perhaps yet another area of endeavour where lawyers can find due cause to inveigle themselves.
To their hearts' content we might argue.
If, that is, they still have any left.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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2 thoughtful fixes:
I was about to meet an old contact yesterday and I couldn't remember where he was working the last time we met. So I googled his name and I found another site with more information than I thought decent. www.zoominfo.com.
It didn't have anything about me when I tried my name. Perhaps I don't exist?
Hi Rollin - ah, perhaps I don't either. Often felt that way. I tried www.zoominfo.com with a relative of mine and found her first time off. But very technical job-related stuff. Perhaps we only exist through our work - or, if it is credit-related data, through our ability to become safely indebted.
Sad if this is the case.
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