Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent

[xultar]

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A.C. Nielsen
Agilent Technologies
Apple Computer
AT&T - Possible Macrovision
Baker & McKenzie
BBC
Bertelsmann Media
Boeing
Church of Scientology
Cisco Systems
Cox Enterprises
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deutsche Telekom
Disney
Duracell
Ernst & Young
Fujitsu
Goldman Sachs
Halliburton
HBO & Company
Hilton Hospitality
Hitachi
HP
IBM
Intel
Intuit
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lockheed-Martin Corp
Lucasfilm
Lucent
Lucent Technologies
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co
Mcafee
MetLife
Mitsubishi
Motorola
Northrop Grumman
Novell
Nvidia
O'Melveny & Myers
Oracle Corp
Pepsi Cola
Procter and Gamble
Random House
Raytheon
Road Runner RRWE
Seagate
Sega
Siemens AG
SONY CORPORATION
Sprint
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
The Hague
Time Warner Telecom
Turner Broadcasting system
Ubisoft Entertainment
Unisys
United Nations
Univision
USPS
Viacom
Vodafone
Wells Fargo
Xerox PARC

[mdmc]

1. what are they doing?

Are they taking FB info and using it to market products?

[kirby]

3. Misleading...

Who really knows, all that is known is that the IP address of the person downloading the info belongs to that company. How many people download stuff at their employers without their knowledge?

Of course all the stuff was 'public info' anyhow, so if you posted that info on Facebook, what did you expect?

[uncle ray]

9. how many major corps allow access to bittorrent sites to their employees?

i'd wager most strictly prohibit the use of torrent sites by their employees, for legal reasons.

[kirby]

11. Prohibit != block

Just about every company disallows/prohibits, but may not have the technology in place to block it.

Many companies do not allow email for personal use, but it still happens.

[Greyhound]

2. If the general public could only grasp the power of huge databases...

and this isn't even in the top ten largest. But, you know.:banghead:

[Initech]

4. Isn't that what the Nazis did to escalate the holocaust?

[formercia]

5. They hired IBM to create a database

It made their killing machine more efficient.

[Greyhound]

7. Yep. And that was "bear skins and stone tools" primitive.

Ironically, the constant attempts to make data proprietary and the byzantine software that has grown around it, are the major impediments to really putting all that data to work...
:scared:

[KamaAina]

6. But, but, but I thought BitTorrent was ee-vull and hurt the poor widdle corporations!

:sarcasm:

[Joe Fields]

8. OF FUCKING COURSE THEY ARE..EVER DOUBT THAT THEY WOULDN'T?

I cannot fathom how stupid people are to put their most private information out in cyberland and think that no one is collecting that information. It has boggled my mind for years.

[jgraz]

10. I hope some lawyer's cooking up a billion-dollar class action suit

These fuckers are the ones who go after teenagers for downloading one or two of their shitty songs. It would be awesome to see the tables turned on these assholes.

[AmandaRuth]

12. will this be used to screen applicants....?

I have been looking for a while, and my profile does say that i am (proudly) liberal and democratic.

Is this going to come back and bite me? Serious question.