Data mining from Ashley Madison hack

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According to the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, nearly 50 percent of married women and 60 percent of married men will have an extramarital affair at some point in their marriage. When you consider that these statistics are nearly double what they were a short 10 years ago, clearly this is beyond an issue; it is now commonplace. When you search the web for "Ashley Madison hack" or any other  variations you will see hundreds and hundreds of news lines. There are many web pages where you can find out about the chronology of the events. The members information leaked and it is out there forever. Somebody already created a map of the member's locations. There is enormous amount of information which would be sorted out and analyzed  based on various criteria.  We read the reports aiming to determine how many females were real and fake based on the various assumptions (Gizmodo). There are many researches which could be done in terms of finding the  preferences and kinks members may have based on age , country or city if you wish. We are not talking about finding and exposing the real people but anonymous analysis of the data. How many times the researchers could have access to such a big volumes of data? The easy answer is thru another hack like this one. These are just a few thoughts which our team wanted to share with you. We published before information on other aspects of privacy data mining here.

Google Maps now shows you everywhere you've been

 

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Google on July 21, 2015 announced a feature called Your Timeline that shows you everywhere you've been on a map, tracking it by time and date. The company is rolling out the feature gradually, first on the Web and for phones running Google's Android operating system.
The company said: The new feature is useful for remembering the places you've been, like a fun bar you visited or the road trips you've taken. Your Timeline is private and visible only to you; and you control the locations you choose to keep. This means you can easily delete a day or your full history at any time. You can edit any place that appears in Your Timeline, including removing a specific location or giving a frequented spot a private name like -- Mom’s House or My Favorite Running Spot. This spot will then appear right in Google Maps when you’re logged in. The new feature reminds us how much information is collected from us with or without our knowledge. Sometimes it is the price we pay to be able to access some of the apps in the either Google or Microsoft or Apple stores. Privacy advocates keep warning us that we receive everything at a price - our privacy. We will be happy to hear what do you thing about this new feature.