What do you mean? What context, the last few weeks, the last few years or the last few decades?
They're doing nothing that you and I couldn't do already, as humans, without any special trickery. Just automating it. If you tweet something, I can read it. If you post something on Facebook as public, can read it. Post something on a public forum, I can read it. This is nothing new - marketers and spammers have been using this same data for years.
This is NOT a privacy issue if you in the first place decided to not make it one. It a big difference between information you've made publicly available and data-mining private information without a warrant. This article is a bit bullshit and headline grabbing to be honest, and looks at it from a PRISM perspective which is the wrong angle.
They're doing nothing that you and I couldn't do already, as humans, without any special trickery. Just automating it. If you tweet something, I can read it. If you post something on Facebook as public, can read it. Post something on a public forum, I can read it. This is nothing new - marketers and spammers have been using this same data for years.
This is NOT a privacy issue if you in the first place decided to not make it one. It a big difference between information you've made publicly available and data-mining private information without a warrant. This article is a bit bullshit and headline grabbing to be honest, and looks at it from a PRISM perspective which is the wrong angle.