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I suspect the reason Google wants your real name is to match it with credit headers. And before anyone calls me a tin-foiler please read the following and understand that I work in the industry. I'm not making a judgment call one way or the other as to whether this is "right" or not. For those that don't know a credit header is information in a credit report that gives identifying information about a person. Credit h…
I suspect the reason Google wants your real name is to match it with credit headers. And before anyone calls me a tin-foiler please read the following and understand that I work in the industry. I'm not making a judgment call one way or the other as to whether this is "right" or not. For those that don't know a credit header is information in a credit report that gives identifying information about a person. Credit h…
There are more countries in the world.
What do you think they could achieve (monetarily) having a personal history attached to a social account? I can tell you the first thing I'd do is determine your influence. I could take your addresses/family addresses and reasonably determine what kind of spending power you have based upon cross referencing your address with tax information. On top of that I don't have to necessarily know about you in another country. I can simply define the influence of an individual here and you may end up in their circle of influence. Imagine a person that's been voted as highly influential in said system and they communicate with you on a regular basis. From that I could infer that you are also potentially influential.
Other countries have similar systems. The information may not be as freely available but it's there. It just needs to be harvested.
For example, one of the biggest sources of relative information is obituaries. Something that is freely printed all over the place.
I suspect the reason Google wants your real name is to match it with credit headers. And before anyone calls me a tin-foiler please read the following and understand that I work in the industry. I'm not making a judgment call one way or the other as to whether this is "right" or not. For those that don't know a credit header is information in a credit report that gives identifying information about a person. Credit h…
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/it-strategy/2005/02/02/google-ga...
The more information they have access to, well ...
How long are people going to tolerate the tyranny of large companies controlling social interaction? Google+ has all kinds of terms of service that I find infringing of free speech. Facebook has their own terms. I think we need to stop being sharecroppers and serfs and develop social network solutions that are distributed and open, or at least encourage the projects that are working on it already. The amount of press…
Everytime I see someone referencing "free speech" in a way that makes it painfully obvious they skipped over the words "CONGRESS shall make no laws restricting..." I want to bang my head against a wall. Google is a company, a company that's providing you a service free of charge. They are 100% within their right to tell you how not to use their product.
Americans that thing that "free speech" is conceptually the same as the first amendment make me want to bang my head against a wall.
Why not use a name which sounds like a real name but isn't yours? I'm doing so very successfully ;) ...
that's a mistake. eventually you'll have to login into your Gmail or Analytics where you gave your real name. Google will then cross reference your IP and notice that the information they have on file is fake. So they'll suspend all of your accounts.