Interesting thought about the possibilities of using Social Media to thwart terrorism — almost to the point of it being a privacy issue concern.

Do we really understand what Facebook, LinkedIn, and MSN among others are required or will do with our information if the government comes knocking on their doors?

In the article, “Social Networking and Time Machines,” it says: 

In the governments latest attempt to grab data and increase surveillance, they are now looking to obtain the network connections/relations between people on social networking sites, in an attempt to “reduce the threat of terrorism”.

This latest data grab is as disingenuous as it is worrying. 
Six Degrees of Separation

Firstly, the issue with social networking is that everybody is connected to pretty much everybody else. So as innocent as a person may be they will almost always be linked to a  guilty person on their social networking site. The age old wives tale of every is linked by 6 connections is not just a tale, but is true, and has shown to be true on  several separate studies, including one by Microsoft involving 30 billion MSN 

Read the entire article at:
http://whereismydata.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/social-networking-and-time-machines/