[joshvm]

Curious to see how companies deal with this kind of data because, ignoring the creep-factor, it is thoroughly interesting to see these sort of patterns emerge and the only way you can find out this kind of stuff is to track people.

It's the actions of the unscrupulous minority that ruin this for the rest of us. I personally believe that most of the time when companies say "We simply aren't that interested in you." they're probably telling the truth. Stats is pointless if you look at single points. It only takes one person to snoop on an ex or to blow everything up. Unfortunately you have to mitigate that risk, but proper database sanitisation before handing over to the analysts should be sufficient. Provided there is no overlap between the sensitive database and the one the analysts have access to there shouldn't be a problem.

I guess it's a side effect of becoming 'big' that you can no longer run these kind of public posts without looking extremely unprofessional.

[yuhong]

I guess it's a side effect of becoming 'big' that you can no longer run these kind of public posts without looking extremely unprofessional.

Does it really matter these days?