Friday, May 22, 2015

Why some social networking sites and apps grab your data

Some social networks and apps get their hands on contacts stored on your cell phone  even if you do not wish to hand them over. Many of us put into contacts every person who sent you email or gave us a business card. Ten years later, you have thousands of contacts and you have no time to look through your contacts and delete those that are irrelevant. The grabby social network may invite most of these contacts, if not all, to join you on the network! By getting some poor bloke into the network, they probably increase their presumed market value by a few cents! Don’t be surprised if your dry cleaning shop joins you on a social network soon!

G. Sampath has written a very good article related to this topic "The Hindu": 

I think a lot of what is called big data is mere garbage.

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