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Comment by yeukhon | Hacker News Reader

Kinda of scary that people are collecting X founder's profile. Although these data are publicly available, this is still kind of scary.

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Why is it scary? The other side to our society rewarding you with billions of dollars is that you are now a public figure.

Not only that but he's the CEO of a transnational corporation: their public pronouncements are always examined for any sort of securities edge.

And the CEO of Facebook of all people. If one non-public person in the entire world deserves scrutiny, it's Zuckerberg.

If that scares you, just wait until you hear about this 'facebook' project.

Do you realize that 'people are collecting X founder's profile' is essentially nothing highly significant in and of itself in this day and age (much thanks to Zuckerberg&co, ironically enough)? -- because this information is out there anyway and will always be there, anyone who's interested can cull that information with considerably little effort with some clever scraping scripts. What's offered with this initiative in particular is the convenience of not having to do that from scratch, instead letting you get straight to the searchin' of juicy bits.

I do. I wrote that in my comment if you read it.

But it is still quite "creepy" to see someone making that effort to collect all your public appearance and put into a profile, shared on HN when you wake up (although you have to send in an email stating your goal).

And this is normally a job the public relation firm has to do.

This is not creepy, this is an academic pursuit of rounding up information of one individual who is incidentally spearheading big change of privacy in a society. This is one of the things that happens to you when you become a public figure. Is a 'biography' creepy? History researchers do this themselves when they're writing history, when they're writing biographies -- some work is made easier for them with this kind of stuff.

I think Zuckerberg's doings are a lot creepier than this when you really get down to it.

That's scary? You should see what Facebook has been up to the last 7-8 years: http://pleasedeletefacebook.com/

So many orgs and individuals are doing similar data mining under the "collect now, analyze later" strategy. The fact that some of the data is made open-ish is not scary at all.

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