This Landmark Study Could Reveal How The Web Discriminates Against You

MrBrian · Aug 26, 2014

From http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyol...reveal-how-the-web-discriminates-against-you/:

Privacy advocates have long argued that the commercialization of our online data is a worrying trend, but it’s been hard to explain why because the companies who track much of what we do operate in obscurity. That could change now that researchers at Princeton University and Belgium’s KU Leuven have released “bots” that mimic real people across the web to track how they experience the same sites differently as part of a new study. The researchers are giving their fake profiles ages, genders, affluence levels, locations, interests and more, in order to seek patterns of discrimination that parallel those same attributes.
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mirimir · Aug 27, 2014

Very cool

We all need clouds of such bots, to get the most unbiased data, best prices and so on.

With decent snailmail-anonymization systems, and Bitcoins to pay for everything anonymously, we could present whatever persona was appropriate.

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