Comments on: What types of data do social networks have? See Schneier’s Taxonomy. http://jodischneider.com/blog/2009/11/20/what-types-of-data-do-social-networks-have-see-schneiers-taxonomy/ reading, technology, stray thoughts Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:39:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jodi Schneider http://jodischneider.com/blog/2009/11/20/what-types-of-data-do-social-networks-have-see-schneiers-taxonomy/comment-page-1/#comment-2701 Jodi Schneider Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:16:16 +0000 http://jodischneider.com/blog/?p=978#comment-2701 Search was the genesis of Lorcan Dempsey's 'intentional data'. The name came from John Battelle's 'database of intentions' described in "The Search" as "the accumulated usage data of the internet search engines", as Dempsey says in footnote 8 of <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/dempsey/04dempsey.html" rel="nofollow"> a DLIB article called Libraries and the Long Tail</a>. Search was the genesis of Lorcan Dempsey’s ‘intentional data’. The name came from John Battelle’s ‘database of intentions’ described in “The Search” as “the accumulated usage data of the internet search engines”, as Dempsey says in footnote 8 of a DLIB article called Libraries and the Long Tail.

]]> By: Jodi Schneider http://jodischneider.com/blog/2009/11/20/what-types-of-data-do-social-networks-have-see-schneiers-taxonomy/comment-page-1/#comment-2700 Jodi Schneider Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:56:35 +0000 http://jodischneider.com/blog/?p=978#comment-2700 Good question! This is specifically a taxonomy for social networking data, and I don't think search engines quite fit. Under Schneier's taxonomy, what you type into a search engine is possibly "service data" (which you must give the site in order to use it). It's also "behavioral data" - collected from your habits. For a single query, I'd choose service data (you know what you are giving the provider and it's secret). But I think of a query stream as behavioral data: the provider has a full "recollection" of what the IP or user disclosed previously, and builds up a profile of you, based on the result. Isn't that odd? Good question! This is specifically a taxonomy for social networking data, and I don’t think search engines quite fit.

Under Schneier’s taxonomy, what you type into a search engine is possibly “service data” (which you must give the site in order to use it). It’s also “behavioral data” – collected from your habits.

For a single query, I’d choose service data (you know what you are giving the provider and it’s secret). But I think of a query stream as behavioral data: the provider has a full “recollection” of what the IP or user disclosed previously, and builds up a profile of you, based on the result.

Isn’t that odd?

]]> By: Gene Golovchinsky http://jodischneider.com/blog/2009/11/20/what-types-of-data-do-social-networks-have-see-schneiers-taxonomy/comment-page-1/#comment-2698 Gene Golovchinsky Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:59:44 +0000 http://jodischneider.com/blog/?p=978#comment-2698 How does the stuff you type into a search engine fit into this scheme? Certainly what you search for provides clues about you, your interests, etc. Does that make it from you, about you, behavioral, or all of the above? How does the stuff you type into a search engine fit into this scheme? Certainly what you search for provides clues about you, your interests, etc. Does that make it from you, about you, behavioral, or all of the above?

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