Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Big Brother is your biggest friend !
Anonyomus social networking? No.
There are very few people on any social network who belong to exactly the same groups. A 'group fingerprint' could thus allow websites to identify previously anonymous visitors.
According to Holz, other large social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook could also be used for this type of test, although the shear size of these networks and the resulting data volumes would present a problem.
1B screened people in 2018 !
There are very few people on any social network who belong to exactly the same groups. A 'group fingerprint' could thus allow websites to identify previously anonymous visitors.
According to Holz, other large social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook could also be used for this type of test, although the shear size of these networks and the resulting data volumes would present a problem.
1B screened people in 2018 !
Xing Social Network Users Country Rank
Germany 17
Austria 23
Turkey263
Spain 403
Italy 1,317
United Kingdom 1,634
India 2,123
China 2,357
United States 5,517