Facebook may be developing a system to automatically detect how rich or poor you are: Patent reveals how the site could track your socioeconomic status.
The social media giant wants to build a system that collects users' personal data, such as education, homeownership and internet usage, in order to predict their socioeconomic status.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5346733/Facebook-patent-uses-track-socioeconomic-status.html
The Patent:
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220180032883%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20180032883&RS=DN/20180032883
That's in addition to this other patent:
Patents Show New Ways For Detecting And Responding To Users’ Feelings
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/facebook-emotion-patents-analysis/
"...The user often faces this camera without thinking about it, while using the phone or laptop normally, and Facebook hopes to start leveraging this imaging data."
Leverage!
What if this Facebook data were combined with LinkedIn?
"... Imagine this: instead of simply moving Active Directory to the cloud, Microsoft is potentially making LinkedIn the central repository of identity for all business-based interactions: chat, email, and more, and it’s an identity that endures for an end user’s professional life, because it’s managed by the user, not by their transient employer."
more at: https://stratechery.com/2016/microsoft-and-apple-double-down/
And a blast from the past:
http://wmbriggs.com/post/537/
So I have to ask, what's in your wallet?
The social media giant wants to build a system that collects users' personal data, such as education, homeownership and internet usage, in order to predict their socioeconomic status.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5346733/Facebook-patent-uses-track-socioeconomic-status.html
The Patent:
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220180032883%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20180032883&RS=DN/20180032883
That's in addition to this other patent:
Patents Show New Ways For Detecting And Responding To Users’ Feelings
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/facebook-emotion-patents-analysis/
"...The user often faces this camera without thinking about it, while using the phone or laptop normally, and Facebook hopes to start leveraging this imaging data."
Leverage!
What if this Facebook data were combined with LinkedIn?
"... Imagine this: instead of simply moving Active Directory to the cloud, Microsoft is potentially making LinkedIn the central repository of identity for all business-based interactions: chat, email, and more, and it’s an identity that endures for an end user’s professional life, because it’s managed by the user, not by their transient employer."
more at: https://stratechery.com/2016/microsoft-and-apple-double-down/
And a blast from the past:
http://wmbriggs.com/post/537/
So I have to ask, what's in your wallet?