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Facebook and government abuse.

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With this article appearing in the Independent.

"Facebook and Google are doing social networking, which is the technology for helping you find out who to talk to and for finding out what your friends know about a person," Professor Carley said. "What social network analysis is about is giving me the whole of the 'Facebook-style' data and saying that I'm going to analyse it..." she said.

I wanted to make sure everyone understands that even with civic groups, the city of
Lakewood and the schools asking for and sharing email addresses and other personal information
The Lakewood Observer has repeatedly said no, and keep our records off-site, and encrypted
so as to make sure our member's personal information is not abused, used or sold.


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