It works by using myriad user info, including location, web browsing and mobile app usage data "to create specific insights" -- i.e.

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Remember when Sony sued Geohot and demanded that YouTube hand over the user info of all the folks who posted comments to Geohot's PS3 jailbreak video?

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Sure, cloud platform vendors will argue that their software, if run properly, isolates all user data and setting info from each other.

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For example, a user might have uploaded a video of someone getting beat up, and another user might try and find personal info on the attacker, sparking an outpouring of extra-legal aggression against someone who might have been completely misidentified.

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The primary user interface elements displayed over the video are the info banner and the scrub bar.

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In his personal blog Grossman has described how a malicious website could create form text fields, probably invisibly, for the contact info it wanted to extract from a Safari user.

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Among these streams of info is access to a chronological list of user activities, GPS data, and the amount of NikeFuel earned both in total and on an individual activity basis.

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