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A sigh of relief has been heard across the Internet as behemoth Google has finally relented in it's ever intruding necessity to have a Google+ account from every service and function from signing up for Gmail to posting comments on YouTube.
From Slate to The Verge and everywhere in between there is dancing in the streets as Google finally got the message... no, not today Google, I don't want Plus. Plus will not be going away, it will become it's own property, left to stand on it's own, and unhooked from every Google service under the sun.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 03 2015, @04:12PM
They already have that, especially when looking at relationship data, geographical IP data, etc.
The only people who don't have that data are the general public, my neighbor, random social media contacts, etc.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday August 03 2015, @04:35PM
They have something close to that. The reason the "real name" policy matters to the social networking folks is that pseudonyms are hard to detect and make their profiles less accurate.
For example, let's say that our subject John Smith had established an online pseudonym of "Jack Jones", with a separate email address and photo with a distinctly different look than John Smith. An automated algorithm has a really hard time connecting the real John Smith and the mythical "Jack Jones". Unless "Jack Jones" screws up and provides his real name, email address, cell phone number, etc to the particular social network, they really have no way to put two and two together.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.