You may have heard of or used Klout, a service that claims to calculate your “Social Media Score” or “Influence”. Well, they sure appeal to your vanity – we all want to be recognized as influencers, don’t we?
Unfortunately Klout is a privacy desaster – they harvest you’re data even if you’re not a member, and do A LOT of very very weird things – read GigaOM and Charles Stross for more details.
They also make it extra hard to leave – fortunatelty Martijn has a detailed post on how to do that exactly – go there NOW.
Want to see something really weird? Look what you need to do to make them stop looking at your tweets:
So they need to SEE WHO I FOLLOW in order to delete my data?
Wow.
Don’t forget to remove those Twitter and Facebook application authorizations!
Tags: data privacy, klout, optout, privacy, social media, twitter
