unFriendly – looking at personal information
SigMIL participated in this year’s Engineering Open House with a project called unFriendly. The goal was originally to see if we could infer, with some degree of success, information about people on Facebook based on their friends’ profiles (we can).
After we had that, the goals changed some to a tool that creates profiles with different sources of information. We had Facebook data (from crawling), campus phone book data (also has a LDAP version), voter records (for Champaign County) and we put it all together in nice google-knockoff web site that lets people search and see what data we can gather and infer about someone. Right now our dataset is limited to people at UIUC, but it wouldn’t be difficult to extend it to larger groups.
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