The privacy problem of SNS website in China

Students interested in Facebook's "privacy crisis" can go to the major science and technology blog, where there are detailed reports, I would like to share a little bit about the privacy of the domestic SNS website, which was accidentally discovered yesterday.

Facebook's recent "privacy crisis" has intensified, with prominent tech blogs and Google employees shutting down their Facebook accounts, followed by several NYU students who are doing Facebook-facing SNS sites Diaspora Lightning opened, and in the media and the public bombing, Facebook finally overwhelmed, the company will open tomorrow afternoon on the "privacy" of the General Assembly (Facebook Calls all hands meeting On privacy), the worst-case situation may be temporarily halted instant personalization applications.

Students interested in Facebook's "privacy crisis" can go to the major science and technology blog, where there are detailed reports, I would like to share a little bit about the privacy of the domestic SNS website, which was accidentally discovered yesterday.

The origin of the matter: Yesterday in order to view the privacy Policy of happy NET, a login with my other mailbox registered happiness account, the account does not add any friends , the only worth mentioning personal information is the e-mail address and Chinese net name (at that time to register casually filled up). Haven't logged in this account for a long time, in the "Friends" page inadvertently see a line tip "You have 27 people you may know," out of curiosity, casually points in.

Drag down the list of 27 people, the more see the more wrong, the list is actually listed at the same time my high school students, college students, after work to know friends, recently met netizens!!

If you use the habit of happy net may not realize that I this "shock", because your account adds a lot of friends, if the system recommended to you some "probably know people", you will guess happy net is through "friend Friend" data Association to recommend, and the exact "recommendation mechanism" is unknown, anyway feel convenient on the line.

However, my account, did not add any friends, in addition to the e-mail address, did not provide any real personal information, happy net How to know my real social relations, but alsoalso know？！！

Some people will explain that, may be someone else through happy net search my email address, the system recorded the data, and then I and "search people" linked up, this shows that the algorithm is very "exquisite"! I'm going to say, my"another mailbox."Is the application after the university, high school students, college students do not know, and MSN contacts know that my mailbox is also very few, I did not use the mailbox search added friends, happy net how canalso knowMy contacts at different stages of my life, and recommended to me at the same time?

I have reason to doubt that happy net is from other "place" to get the data about me, for instance Chinaren alumni, there is my former high school schoolmate relation data---Recommend to my "schoolmate friend" most is can find in alumni, for example My MSN contact data, For example, my Gmail contact data, and then the database integration of these social relations, using a certain algorithm, a "subtle" friend recommendation system has been formed, "my life at different stages of contact" so at the same time was recommended to my eyes. I have reason to suspect that there is a "behind-the-scenes deal" about my "social data" and I have no knowledge of it. Now the question about Facebook's "privacy crisis" is that Facebook wants users to firstSet privacy options, and then in supportOpen GraphThe website will display the user's friend information, without the user agreed to disclose the user's privacy information is illegal, and our side, the user's privacy data may have been traded from a website to another site, and users do not know this!

Of course in the celestial, talk about personal privacy a luxury thing, the bigbrother is watching you. But sometimes you get lucky: companies that claim to be "customer service" may be better? Will they take care of your personal data as much as they cherish their own lives?

Now from happy Net's "exquisite Friend recommendation system" Look, that is probably wishful thinking fantasy.