Whats to stop anyone from doing that now using "open graph"/crowd sourcing and geotagging from seo queries upon names and identities? C&D letters from facebook lawyers they will inevitably send your way from complaints of users asking how you're doing what your doing and to stop, and claim to be protecting users? Ha… I mean seriously with all the public data-sets out there associated with identities, do people really need things like users and login accounts for people to engage in the same behavior as they do on facebook? Are people naive enough to believe that they need to have such to engage in the same social behaviors in a similar fashion?
With 20 VM's located from unknown places in the world, you can mine everyone from FB and query data that facebook declares "public" in about two months… for about $200 total… wanna build a open sourced facial recog database with profile photos (graph.facebook.com/{your_user_id}/picture?type=large)[and then use crowd-soursing to make such better for images that don't get put into the model from not passing simple feature detection from open source recog libraries out there]. Want to query an ip address and return a probability distribution for names associated with pages visited with such + browser fingerprinting techniques written about in enough detail to bore anyone? Prob can't build a business on top of it from it within the US (maybe), but that's what legal arbitrage is for.
Things existed before facebook, things will exist after…
With 20 VM's located from unknown places in the world, you can mine everyone from FB and query data that facebook declares "public" in about two months… for about $200 total… wanna build a open sourced facial recog database with profile photos (graph.facebook.com/{your_user_id}/picture?type=large)[and then use crowd-soursing to make such better for images that don't get put into the model from not passing simple feature detection from open source recog libraries out there]. Want to query an ip address and return a probability distribution for names associated with pages visited with such + browser fingerprinting techniques written about in enough detail to bore anyone? Prob can't build a business on top of it from it within the US (maybe), but that's what legal arbitrage is for.
Things existed before facebook, things will exist after…