Reply #7: Data Mining... lets flood the mine and drown them [View All]

[Crayson]

There's tons of data out there about every person.
Just enter your name into google and it will turn up something most certainly (sports, social events, anything you took part once).
And there is all the data you FREELY give away by creating freemail accounts, forum logins, online shopping, everything that adds to your convenience actually STORES DATA about you.

Just an idea:
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Since you'll not be able to stop data mining I wonder how long it will take before we see the first "virtual person bots".
Software that simulates persons and opens accounts and does some stuff online and SPAMS databases with fake personalities.

I mean: who is the most anonymous guy in the US? I'd guess it's "John Smith".
Now imagine a Bot that crawls the internet and lays traces off hundred people with YOUR name but totally different personality profiles all over the world.
One visiting christian homepages, one reading forums of the china communist party, one volouteering at the local retirement home.
Tons of "good" and "bad" behavior in tons of places.
Of course you'd have to run that bot from different IP addresses and so on.