Comments on: Too much information? Twitter, Privacy, and Lawrence Waterhouse http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/twitter-privacy-and-lawrence-waterhouse Jer Thorp | There is an art to evolution... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: HaeB http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/twitter-privacy-and-lawrence-waterhouse/comment-page-1#comment-982 HaeB Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:51:40 +0000 http://blog.blprnt.com/?p=855#comment-982 On Wikipedia, where many users rack up thousands of edits, such temporal patterns have been analyzed to catch "sock puppets" (multiple accounts used by the same person for malicious purposes). See the diagrams on p.29-31 of <a href="http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CheckUser_and_Editing_Patterns.pdf" target="_blank">http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chec...</a> - including a time zone analysis like in your diagram, and an example of how sometimes you can even deduce a person's religious affiliation just from such temporal patterns, illustrating the privacy cocerns further. On Wikipedia, where many users rack up thousands of edits, such temporal patterns have been analyzed to catch "sock puppets" (multiple accounts used by the same person for malicious purposes).

See the diagrams on p.29-31 of http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chec… – including a time zone analysis like in your diagram, and an example of how sometimes you can even deduce a person's religious affiliation just from such temporal patterns, illustrating the privacy cocerns further.

]]> By: blprnt http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/twitter-privacy-and-lawrence-waterhouse/comment-page-1#comment-975 blprnt Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:27:05 +0000 http://blog.blprnt.com/?p=855#comment-975 I said I didn't think there were too many Twitter saavy burglars out there - not that there are none. Unless there's direct evidence that a Twitter status led to the theft, I'd be much more inclined in the Hyman case to believe that the burglars found out about his absence in a more traditional way. Houses have been broken into when people are on vacation for a very long time. You don't need Twitter to know that someone is away.<br /><br /><br />In any case, this post is less about what happens when someone *does* make their lives public via twitter (tweets with 'vacation' or 'trip') and more about what kind of information we share unintentionally.<br /><br /> I said I didn't think there were too many Twitter saavy burglars out there – not that there are none. Unless there's direct evidence that a Twitter status led to the theft, I'd be much more inclined in the Hyman case to believe that the burglars found out about his absence in a more traditional way. Houses have been broken into when people are on vacation for a very long time. You don't need Twitter to know that someone is away.

In any case, this post is less about what happens when someone *does* make their lives public via twitter (tweets with 'vacation' or 'trip') and more about what kind of information we share unintentionally.

]]> By: TOCA ME http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/twitter-privacy-and-lawrence-waterhouse/comment-page-1#comment-973 TOCA ME Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:01:52 +0000 http://blog.blprnt.com/?p=855#comment-973 so when in brighton we have to make sure that you stay in your time zone! = no tweets during the day :) so when in brighton we have to make sure that you stay in your time zone! = no tweets during the day :)

]]> By: Krees http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/twitter-privacy-and-lawrence-waterhouse/comment-page-1#comment-972 Krees Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:03:45 +0000 http://blog.blprnt.com/?p=855#comment-972 I think it's far more likely that someone just searched things like "vacation" or "trip" and their city. I don't know why you think burglars aren't Internet savvy. It's the misconception that bad people all live in trailers and can't spell their own names that gets us into trouble. I think it’s far more likely that someone just searched things like “vacation” or “trip” and their city.

I don’t know why you think burglars aren’t Internet savvy. It’s the misconception that bad people all live in trailers and can’t spell their own names that gets us into trouble.

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