http://www.privacylives.com/boston-globe-at-mit-an-experiment-identifies-which-students-are-gay-raising-new-questions-about-online-privacy/2009/09/21/ monitoring the pulse of privacy Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.privacylives.com/boston-globe-at-mit-an-experiment-identifies-which-students-are-gay-raising-new-questions-about-online-privacy/2009/09/21/comment-page-1/#comment-48211 Data Privacy Regulation & Management » “Gaydar” is not just academic Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:46:14 +0000 http://www.privacylives.com/?p=3985#comment-48211 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

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