MIT's Eyebrowse To Rank and Review Internet Sites, While Retaining Privacy (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday March 7, 2016 @01:43AM from the click-here-and-here-and-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes: MIT has launched a new scheme whereby participating users can voluntarily share data on their website viewing habits, via the use of a Google Chrome extension and by signing up to an MIT website. The scheme, called Eyebrowse, began development in 2010 and has been in closed beta for the last 18 months. Cornell information science professor Mor Naaman says of the project: "Data has traditionally been used by anyone from corporations to the government...but the goal of this system is to make the data more useful for the individuals themselves, to give them more control, and to make it more useful to communities."

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Help us build it! by Karger · 2016-03-07 05:51 · Score: 3, Informative

Eyebrowse is open source---at https://github.com/haystack/ey... --- and that we'd love your help making it better.
I'll also correct a few inaccuracies in the title of the post
* it won't let you rank or review sites (yet)
* Rather than unyieldingly "privacy preserving" our idea is to let *you* decide what parts of your web activity you want to share. Many people would like to have a more social experience on the web, for the same reason that people like to go outside, run into friends, and see where crowds are gathering. But we argue that you, rather than the tracking agencies, should be in charge of deciding which parts of your activity should be visible.