Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:37:46 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] The Latvians have invaded LinkedIn. Can the NSA be far behind?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
Unlike most sane people, I spend a lot of time fretting over LinkedIn.
More specifically, I think about LinkedIn's People You May Know feature.
How does LinkedIn know I may know these people? What do my alleged
connections say about me? And just where is LinkedIn getting its
information? I have deep suspicions, but no proof.

Lately, though, things have taken a turn for the absurd. Looking at my
endlessly scrolling list of People You May Know, I discovered Latvians.
Not just four or five Latvians =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=93 more like 40 or 50 Latv=
ians, most of whom
aren't even distantly connected to me.
<...>
More than ever -- and online in particular -- who you know can be more
important than who you are. In fact, who somebody thinks you know may be
more important than who you are, especially if that somebody is a faceles=
s
government bureaucracy with limitless power to izjaukt savu dz=C3=84=C2=AB=
vi (mess up
your life).

Yes, I'm back on my favorite topic of late, NSA spying.

When the NSA collects metadata on your phone calls =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=93 who=
m you called and
when you did it, how long you talked and where you were =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=93=
 its purpose is
to build a network of the people you know. They want to know if some of
the people you know are the people they happen to be watching. And if so,=

well, now they're watching you too.

It's the spook version of People You May Know.
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        mark