Google patent app details method for generating a \'ghost profile,\' an international of anonymous G+ users

Google hasn't exactly had the simplest time keeping the privacy hawks off of its back, but when a recently published patent application is any indication of its future intentions, well... let's just say lets see much more people hiding behind a web based veil. Made public today, Google's most up-to-date patent app details a "system and method for generating a ghost profile for a social network," which might -- in theory, a minimum of -- allow a user to apply certain features in a social network without converting to a social network profile. For those curious, the ghostly profiles can be unsearchable, and comments that originated from said profiles will be shown as being from "partial names." The true question: are G+ ghosts allowed within the Facebook compound-

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