« 81 BlackBerrys: An Amherst Administrator Compiles a Campus-Tech Index | Home | Unmuzzling Diploma Mills: Dog Earns M.B.A. Online »

MIT Students’ Facebook ‘Gaydar’ Raises Privacy Issues

By admin | September 23, 2009

MIT Students’ Facebook ‘Gaydar’ Raises Privacy Issues

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a computer program that they say can deduce whether or not someone is gay by doing an analysis of his Facebook profile, The Boston Globe reports.

According to The Globe, two students in a course on Internet ethics and law designed a program that

Topics: Education |

Comments