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[supergee]

Charlie Stross on the social network disease Klout.

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[brewsternorth]

Don't know if Charlie mentions it, but from @coyotetoo RTed by someone on my TL:

"Klout’s privacy policy allows them to share *personally identifiable* info with 3rd parties, opt-out here: klout.com/corp/optout"

Am glad I never got on that particular hamster-wheel, to be honest, but the more I see how social media is developing, the more I'd like to see a US equivalent of the UK's old Data Protection Act in Yankeeland - and a means by which companies could be beholden to it. The nearest we seem to get is HIPAA for medical records.