Identifying homosexuals through Facebook. - 11 views

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  #1 Weiye Loh on 22 Sep 09

   

  http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/
  
  A group of students from MIT actually wrote a program to predict if a person is gay based on the "friends" they have in their Social Network Facebook. There's also the possibility of identifying a person's age (rather than the one specified on the SNS, religious affliations, political affliations, etc.
  
  Raises new ethical issues about privacy through the influence of technology. Interesting.
  
  So now we need to creat noise by befriending all types of people. Hahaha.
  
  Will such profiling be discriminatory in nature? Is it useful? (Of course it is in this capitalistic sociaty. It helps marketers identify potential markets)

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/</a> <br /> <br /> A group of students from MIT actually wrote a program to predict if a person is gay based on the "friends" they have in their Social Network Facebook. There's also the possibility of identifying a person's age (rather than the one specified on the SNS, religious affliations, political affliations, etc. <br /> <br /> Raises new ethical issues about privacy through the influence of technology. Interesting. <br /> <br /> So now we need to creat noise by befriending all types of people. Hahaha. <br /> <br /> Will such profiling be discriminatory in nature? Is it useful? (Of course it is in this capitalistic sociaty. It helps marketers identify potential markets)</div>

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