Privacy over social networking sites has always been in jeopardy. Sometimes by the provoking attacks of hackers and sometimes (for the first time that I remember) from students, perhaps with no real intentions to trigger alarm.
Facebook however is caught vulnerable again and that’s just the issue. A duo from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology has devised a software program, the Gaydar, they say, that can mark out a person’s sexual orientation depending on his friends on Facebook. They can guess even if you‘ve got all the other info saved private, holy aren’t they intruding the privacy actually?
The computer-based program looks into the gender and sexuality of an individual’s friends, and then using statistical analysis, based on the knowledge outside Facebook however, makes predictions, which in surveys has proven accurate in case of men. In the surveys Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree revealed that homosexual men had a more percentage of gay friends online than straight men, and based upon this assumption the duo has done a software program to predict the same for other male users on Facebook, solely by scrutinizing their friends list.
Because the program only tabulates the sexual orientation for men with the liking for the same gender, and cannot do so well to identify lesbians or bisexuals of either gender, you guys may just be safe from a holy attack. The find is still not actually published in a journal, but MIT duo is planning to get it in somehow – I think Facebook, in case wants to make things safer for men (astonishingly under attack this time) has sometime in hand to fix this. Or do they have something in their hands.
Who all are gaming for a friends list review to play safe?
Via: BostonGlobe
