[dundee] U.K. Government to monitor social networking sites

[Dan Bolser]

2009/3/25 Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com>:
> Allegedly they wont be tracking the content of the messages, but are
> more interested in the connections between people:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7962631.stm
>
> This is obviously a disgrace(!) but at least they've got an
> intractable NP-complete compute problem in making sense of the 'social
> graph':

My friend worked on algorithms for discovering 'pathways' in abstract
protein-protein interaction networks. I suggested that he patent this
for intelligence gathering purposes, but he didn't see the point. I'm
really thinking to start a business to apply biologically motivated
analysis (PPI networks) to sites like Facebook.



> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory
>
> I guess we have another reason to hope that P != NP ;-)
>
> R.
>
> 2009/3/25 Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com>:
>> Does that simply mean that there will be a facebook page for 'The
>> Government', and that it will want to be friends with you? I think
>> that would be awesome!
>>
>>
>> 2009/3/25 gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>:
>>> Big brother is now going to monitor you on Facebook and Bebo now:
>>>
>>> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/250110/the-government-is-watching-you-on-facebook.html
>>>
>>> Gordon
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