“Gaydar” is not just academic
Submitted by Steve Meltzer on September 21, 2009 – 4:46 pmComments
An MIT research project showed that statistical analysis of friending behavior on social networking sites could help predict a subjects sexual orientation. The study was conducted as part of an academic experiment but the application of such statistical analysis could (and no doubt already does) play a role in government and commercial social media profiling. Government is searching for terrorists and drug dealers. Corporations are wondering if we want to buy that burger or that book.
As our digital identity becomes less amorphous, do we lose our privacy?
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