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Most of my online activity is in the name of my online identity, as it were. I do have one account in the name of my meatspace identity, originally for job-hunting purposes. I find it interesting that in its efforts to work out who I know, that social network site is now asking me if I know X and Y, where X and Y are the meatspace names of [livejournal.com profile] glitterboy1 and [livejournal.com profile] esmeraldus_neo.

There are a handful of people on my account I know through fannish connections, so I suspect that it's a 2nd/3rd order link via those people. But I had to think about it to work out where the connections were coming from...
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I lived in Google's home town for several years, which meant that I got to be part of some of their experiments -- whether I liked it or not. Amongst other things, I was one of the first group of people to get to see my front door on Google Street View, which resulted in some mutterings about disappearing privacy and the panopticon society at the time.

These days I'm living in the UK. And the UK edition of Street View went live this week, complete with face-blurring technology to respect the privacy of the citizens of a country that has at least a nod towards data protection. Let's see, now... Looks like the street where I live didn't have a visit from the Googlecam, but the street where I work did. And I recognise the figure on the front steps of the office block, even with face-blurring technology. Maybe I'll tell him tomorrow...

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