Google’s Orkut Experiencing Privacy Problems

Google’s social networking site, Orkut has been unavailable off and on since yesterday, possibly for upgrades to prevent data mining of members’ personal information. One non-Google website allows users to trace Orkut member connections on a US map using data scraped from the site. The map interface is based on older data and rumor has it that “Orkut police” stopped the mining. Reports from WebProNews.com and SearchEngineWatch.com.