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Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

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Post by gonehome »

tantalor wrote: post #70
majkinetor wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. BUT, this may bring awareness to regular folks. You can also use it to remove your own stuff from said networks because people do not catalogue their online activity and it can be hard to remove your digital footprint.

I'd pay for a service that would do this, 1. Find my digital footprints on social media 2. Compare that to my desired level of public activity, e.g., do not share photos of me 3. Provide tools to delete, scrub, send takedowns, etc.

There’s privacy duck and delete me, but they’re mostly focused on the scammier public data collection sites where it’s harder to remove your information.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

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Post by kube-system »

ttt0 wrote: post #36
cirno wrote: post #18

> API, CLI & Web App for analyzing & finding a person's profile across +300 social media websites > could help in investigating profiles related to suspicious or malicious activities such as cyberbullying, cybergrooming, cyberstalking, and spreading misinformation. It will much more likely be used to aid cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Those types love digging for more information by finding their targets' profiles…

Lol, exactly. This is a doxxing tool, who do you think is going to use that?

People who dox are doing to do it anyway. This tool will make it really easy for people to find holes in their own (or their organizations) presence.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

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Post by 4eor0 »

dleslie wrote: post #62
4eor0 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Police sure seem pleased thumping skulls. Anything we can do to make it easier for them.

Maybe your country should worry less about the technology and more about the people using it. You clearly have a personelle problem.

Maybe we should police each other more, and technology less?

But who is making the technology?

Circles. Circles everywhere.

Perhaps you should not anthropomorphize technology.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

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Post by syoc »

MauroIksem wrote: post #74

I'm so sick of morons open sourcing abuse tools under the guise of "helping". This tool will be misused to abuse and harass more than anything else. Making these tools available to masses is dangerous.

What are "abuse tools"? Trying to suppress knowledge is never the answer. That would mean that only those in the know can either protect themselves or exploit others.

The "never put information about yourself on the internet" mantra from before social media needs a comeback and it will not happen if no one shines a light on how easy it is to track people online.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

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Post by williesleg »

alex_young wrote: post #5

> This project is "currently used by some law enforcement agencies in countries where resources are limited". Pretty troubling statement. Does this tool help repressive governments track people across accounts? That’s sure what it looks like.

Progressives worldwide use this tool.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

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Post by dleslie »

4eor0 wrote: post #73
dleslie wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe your country should worry less about the technology and more about the people using it. You clearly have a personelle problem.

Maybe we should police each other more, and technology less? But who is making the technology? Circles. Circles everywhere. Perhaps you should not anthropomorphize technology.

I am explicitly _not_ anthropromorphizing technology; I argued it is a logical abstraction with no rights.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

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Post by ImprovedSilence »

majkinetor wrote: post #21
cirno wrote: post #18

> API, CLI & Web App for analyzing & finding a person's profile across +300 social media websites > could help in investigating profiles related to suspicious or malicious activities such as cyberbullying, cybergrooming, cyberstalking, and spreading misinformation. It will much more likely be used to aid cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Those types love digging for more information by finding their targets' profiles…

Exactly. BUT, this may bring awareness to regular folks. You can also use it to remove your own stuff from said networks because people do not catalogue their online activity and it can be hard to remove your digital footprint.

Yup, I'm more curious to find out what I can find out about myself more than anything else.
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