On the one hand, Assis, the director, refuses to allow access to Benayahu's personal dossiers.
The real danger may lie less in "lossless" webs of personal dossiers than in the histories written and judgments made on the basis of disconnected scraps of information that rarely survive more than a few years.
In their pitch to journalists, the pair claimed Social Circle was "designed to scrape private data and build deeply personal dossiers on millions of users – in a direct and flagrant violation of [Google's] agreement with the FTC [Federal Trade Commission]".
This program would combine public and private databases -- including criminal histories, driver's license data, digitized photographs and significant amounts of consumer data -- to allow state and federal law enforcement officials to conduct searches and create personal dossiers.
"The investigation has failed to establish the true causes of the arrest and imprisonment of Wallenberg and Langfelder, the actual circumstances of their deaths or the existence of criminal case documents or personal dossiers," the statement said.
The final cast member, Aaron Barr, then CEO of HBGary Federal, started creating personal dossiers on Hunton & Williams employees to display his prowess as a social media ninja – his way of convincing the law firm that he could train them in the perils of social media.
No creepy personal dossiers necessary.
Rabe's campaign has conducted a health study of its own, assembling a dossier from personal contacts and by knocking on neighbours' doors.
Their right to anonymity has been abandoned online, where enraged bloggers have uploaded dossiers of personal photographs, raked through their CVs and tweets, and accused them of orchestrating a CIA-inspired honeytrap operation.
And Mr Peyrelevade's personal involvement in the Executive Life dossier deepened in 1994.
