I have decided not to allow photos of myself if they have a chance of ending up on social media. We will see how that goes with the relatives.

https://www.nestmann.com/your-expectation-of-privacy-just-got-lower

Last month, researchers at Stanford University announced they had developed software that was able to accurately predict a person’s sexual orientation.

Drawing from photos on a popular dating website, their program was able to correctly distinguish self-identified gay men from heterosexual men 81% of the time. It had a 71% success rate in distinguishing gay women from heterosexual women. When the algorithm was given five images of the same person to examine, the accuracy rose to 91% for men and 83% for women. Read the rest of this entry »