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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. MIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tired of hearing about this jaded, politically correct, once was great academic institution.

  2. Blm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But do they chant Black Lives Matter endlessly in mindless unison?