MIT Social Network Analysis Study

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/?page=full

Students in a class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier have developed algorithms to make assumptions about a person based upon who they're networked to without accessing the persons own data. This raises concerns on how private the privacy restrictions for popular networking sites such as facebook and myspace really are. While a person can only provide access to their own page to people they accept into their network, those networks work by allowing public access to the basic network information of each user. The more widely available your network tags are, the more successful your networking abilities should become, however it also allows people to make inferences on your private life based upon that information.

Test Post

Testing the first blog post and hyperlinks.

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