Personal privacy has never been a priority of the internet. The right search string can find just about anything and anyone. Now there are a couple of websites that make the job of being a digital voyeur much easier. These personal information conglomeraters take all of the data about you scattered around the internet and gather it together into one stalker-ready resource. Personal and professional data bumping into each other to produce a mutant offspring that was never meant to see the light of day. Of course, in the Web 2.o world, embarrassing people with facts of their own life is not enough. Sites like Spock.com, allow you to not only adjust your own profile but to classify others by whatever derogatory term you wish. Slander and libel disguised as accurate description. Others have already made comment on how these sites have been used to mislabel people as despicable criminals. Imagine if these sites became popular enough that they produced the top Google hit every time you searched your name. The first thing most people would see of your internet presence would be malicious terms pranksters planted on you (or all the wonderful fictitious tags you add to yourself - Nobel Prize here I come).
By the way Spock.com, if you are reading over my shoulder, my name is Sage Tyler, a 38 year old lumberjack from Walla Walla, Washington.
By the way Spock.com, if you are reading over my shoulder, my name is Sage Tyler, a 38 year old lumberjack from Walla Walla, Washington.
