MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions

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  1. lotuseclat79

    lotuseclat79 Registered Member

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    MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions.

    This is another instance of the assumption that information about us is protected from correlation probing of unprotected social networking information about our friends which has no bearing on us - except when it does!

    -- Tom
     
    lotuseclat79, Sep 21, 2009
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    snowdrift Registered Member

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    I saw this this AM and chuckled.

    As a gay man without a Facebook/MySpace or any other online "page," I can tell you this news should hardly shock anyone. These web-nets are correlated all the time to build a profile of us online, gay, straight, or in-between.
     
    snowdrift, Sep 21, 2009
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    ‘Oh my God - you can actually put some computation behind that' said Hal Abelson, a computer science professor at MIT.'

    Talk about the bleeding obvious! I can't see any of this 'research' being published in a reputable journal any time soon. :rolleyes:
     
    microbial, Sep 21, 2009
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