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MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions
theodp writes "At MIT, an experiment that identifies which students are gay is raising new questions about online privacy. Using data from Facebook, two students in an MIT class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. The project, given the name 'Gaydar' by the students, is part of the fast-moving field of social network analysis, which examines what the connections between people can tell us, from predicting who might be a terrorist to the likelihood a person is happy, fat, liberal, or conservative." MIT professor Hal Abelson, who co-taught the course, is quoted: "That pulls the rug out from a whole policy and technology perspective that the point is to give you control over your information — because you don't have control over your information."
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You can have your god back when you are old enough to handle the responsibility.
I just hope they don't invent a virgin-radar.
There are a couple of fields of personal data in facebook which state your marital status, and whether you are looking for a man or woman. It might just be possible from analyzing these details, which way you swing.
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Does it also take into account if all your friends are women? If they're all members of a musical theatre troupe? If one of your friends is your mother...
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Where can I download this "real world" you speak of? Is it a one time purchase or a subscription fee?
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
There aren't any, and that's how I want it to be :-)
Yeah, someone should set up a company where people put in their interests and stuff, and it finds another member who matches then introduces them. Sounds like a possible application for them there newfangled computer doohickeys.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
[Spock eyebrow raise]
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Or whether your last session originated from a Mac or not? And how about if you talk about, or have pictures of, Mazda Miatas in your profile?
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Just like sleeping with large numbers of the same sex does not make one gay
fixed that for you
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I have a program that can determine if someone on facebook may be gay, liberal, conservative, plus what their top 5 movies are, their top 5 albums, if they're bored, and even sometimes what they're eating! I call it: a browser.
And yet you registered for a slashdot account.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Data miners mining minors' data
It's not worth it it only comes in lo-def and you only get a trial version that expires after a short period, but worst of all its closed source so you never know whats going on!
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Amy: This is Bolt Rolands. Bolt is a hyper-sled racer with ten wins on the pro circuit.
Bolt: Hello, beautiful!
Bender: (whispers) I think she means ten wins on the gay circuit.
Bolt: (chuckling) I wish! Those cats can really fly.
I think the MIT people are simply too infatuated with cult of technology.
This just in, people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology love technology!
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It was probably a surprise when it went in too.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"And yet you registered for a slashdot account."
My social interaction is restricted to 4chan where my info will be respected.
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I just assumed you had a cold.
(And a speech-to-text interface.)
I can see the fnords!
I just assumed you had a cold.
(And a speech-to-text interface.)
He probably double the killer delete select all.
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Thanks a lot, you insensitive clod!!
> certainly most countries (not all) in continental Europe were more tolerant about sexual preference 50 years ago than most Americans today.
Indeed, the Germans INVENTED the fabulous pink triangle symbol that gays wear so proudly today!