{"id":735,"date":"2010-03-16T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattwork.potsdam.edu\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2011-06-17T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:28:03","slug":"myspace-openly-selling-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/myspace-openly-selling-user-data\/","title":{"rendered":"MySpace Openly Selling User Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/03\/16\/1317228\/MySpace-To-Sell-User-Data\">this\u00c2\u00a0 \/. post<\/a>, MySpace is now openly selling user data. If you don&#8217;t think FaceBook et. al. can and will (and do) do the same when it benefits them, you&#8217;re sorely mistaken.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;one-time leading social network is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/myspace_bulk_data.php\">selling  user data to third party collection firms<\/a>. From the article, the  data that <a href=\"http:\/\/infochimps.org\/\">InfoChimps<\/a> has listed  includes &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/infochimps.org\/collections\/myspace-real-time-stream\">user  playlists, mood updates, mobile updates, photos, vents, reviews, blog  posts, names and zipcodes<\/a>.&#8217; InfoChimps is a reseller that deals with  individuals and groups, from academic researchers to marketers and  industry analysts.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per this\u00c2\u00a0 \/. post, MySpace is now openly selling user data. If you don&#8217;t think FaceBook et. al. can and will (and do) do the same when it benefits them, you&#8217;re sorely mistaken. &#8220;one-time leading social network is now selling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/myspace-openly-selling-user-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[42,62,78,79],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-work","tag-facebook","tag-myspace","tag-social-networking","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}