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

[Rick Moynihan]

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':

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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