confuzer

Background Social networking websites and tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr allow individuals to share information globally and nearly instantaneously. For individuals comfortable with this exposure (hereafter referred to as social-beacons), these tools can benefit their ability to network or find information of interest to them. However, it is possible that individuals who do not care to expose their private information (social-cloakers) may be exposed by those individuals who are active users of social networking tools. Confuzer Confuzer is intended to leverage these social networking tools to identify social networking connectors reference and determine the secondary exposure of other individuals. Next, it allows for an individual to scan this record for their information or their presence in publicly accessible photos (and eventually videos). If such information is found, Confuzer will notify the indivi