If News Corp buy LinkedIn, what will it mean?
Posted by Dan Eastwell
Techcrunch has said that News Corp is 'in talks' with LinkedIn with a view to buy the business networking site.
This follows a series of buy-outs an acquisitions of large quantities of equity in other networking and persnonal information aggregation sites.
The list includes:
Should I be concerned that a series of major corporations have access to my data? Well, it's not as if it's otherwise inaccessible, it would just be impracticable to gather individuals' information from all their publically available internet presences, and then be certain it's actually all the same person's information.
What sinister schemes could be carried out with the knowledge that I like listening to Blur?
What could be gained from knowing I graduated from the University of Essex? (Information that's available not only on my LinkedIn profile, but the 'about' page of this site.)
Even so, I'm still going to be careful about what I post on these sites, despite the fact I was perfectly prepared to pass on data about 'practically anything' when I was under they impression they were run by five geeks in a backroom.
Even without corporate ownership, I'll consider using algorithmical mnemonics for remembering answers to security questions.
Or will I..?
