Surveillance Society: Students easy targets for data miners


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According to its public statements, though, the Czech Republic-based firm may be assembling more than photos of vinegar-and-baking-soda volcanoes.

The company’s privacy policy said it may collect a user’s “name, address, email … date of birth, gender, country,” as well as “interests, hobbies, lifestyle choices, groups with whom they are affiliated (schools, companies), videos and/or pictures, private messages, bulletins or personal statements.”

It may share information about users with “consumer products, telecom, financial, military, market research, entertainmen, and educational services companies,” according to its website.

“Even if it’s written in our policy, we don’t do this,” said Vojtech Stribrsky, Glogster’s head of sales and marketing. “You kind of remind me that we should revise” the privacy policy.

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