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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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- The Prison Niggers
lol, facebook says you're a cum-dumpster, ball sucking faggot
and it turns out facebook is RIGHT!!!
"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."
I have control over my information. And that is why you wont find be on Facebook.
Who cares, only an american would care about anothers sexuality. Bigotry inequality discrimnation and trusting in god, did we mention american greed, well no, that's a whole other story
Some act gay but aren't, .
How does a man act gay (have sex with other men) and not be gay?
It is real simple, if you are a man who has sex with other men, you are gay. If you are a man who doesn't have sex with other men, you are not gay.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
If all your friends are black, you ARE black, or you're some horrible freaky black-wannabe, which would be honored to be called black.
If your friends are gay.... maybe you ARE gay..
VIRGINDAR, coming soon!
People who loudly insist that they're "hyper-straight" are usually anything but.