Yes.

Creating safe harbors from the all-seeing network (2005)

Acquiring data about FB users with extremely tight privacy settings via their observed propagated effects on other, more accessible users. Telling.

"Researchers have known for more than a decade that gender plus ZIP code plus birthdate uniquely identifies a significant percentage of Americans (87%, according to Latanya Sweeney's famous study)."

Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

Via Eric. Comment: "And what if in that picture you were standing with someone or near some one that your partner doesn’t like….and then your partner beats you up for it. That’s the tenderloin. That stuff happens. You cant just take someones picture there and post it up. In the “language of the tenderloin” it means something to stand on golden gate and leavenworth or on turk and polk, those blocks mean certain things, where you can find certain people and where you can buy certain things. You take a picture of someone standing on a certain block, you are saying something about that person."

IRL blowback.

Loopt went there first, but Loopt doesn't matter. GOOG matters.

Hmmm. Well, for the most part I approve of Prop 8 backers getting a taste of what hate feels like - after all, they're perfectly happy to legislate it for others. But you know I've gotta draw the line at actionable harassment and intimidation. Anyway, point is: didn't I tell you this was going to happen?

Because there's no way IP address-tagged queries can be resolved to individuals...