In the social networking age, coming out is not a personal choice any more.
That's what MIT students, Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree, found out with an experiment “Gaydar” in 2007. They downloaded the Facebook friends of 1,544 men who said they were straight, 21 bisexual, and 33 gay men, and trained their computer program to analyze them. Then they did the same analysis on 947 others whose sexual orientation was not published on the web. Surprisingly the program predicted all 10 gay men, though it failed to accurately identify lesbians or bisexuals. In short, gay men may be outing themselves before they know.
About a decade ago, Dr. Latanya Sweeney of Carnegie Mellon University conducted another experiment, using public anonymous data from the 1990 census, and found that the combination of gender, ZIP code, birthdate uniquely identifies 87% of U.S. population (city:53%, county:18%). Scary isn't it?
Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov, researchers of University of Texas at Austin conducted similar research using Netflix rating database this year, and the report “De-anonymizing Social Networks”is now available online.
Seemingly anonymous data can sometimes be very personal. Maybe internet anonymity is just a myth.
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[The Boston Globe]
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