On Feb 22, 2012, at 4:18 PM, M Jarvis wrote:
> So today a friend of mine sends me a LinkedIn request, I accept it,
> and in the People You May Know section is the name of an ex girlfriend
> from over 20 years ago... she and I never exchanged email, cell phones
> or calls, never lived together, never signed documents together... we
> just kinda hung out mostly...
>
> So how in the blazes did they somehow come up with that obscure of a
> connection???
Data mining is really good at finding connections that might not be
obvious at first glance. You and the ex-girlfriend probably have more than one
person in common, or have several connections who worked for the same company
or went to the same school, or... There are so many ways that things you don't
think about reveal things about you.
Did you see this story from a few days ago?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
( -or- http://j.mp/yKrJ6I )
-- Ed Leafe
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