News: Programme Can Reveal the Sexual Orientation of Social Network Users

From Privacy.org: 2 students at MIT have developed a program, nicknamed project Gaydar, which will predict sexual orientation on the basis of who the individual 'friends' on social networking sites:

“Even if you don’t affirmatively post revealing information, simply publishing your friends’ list may reveal sensitive information about you, or it may lead people to make assumptions about you that are incorrect,” said Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights organization in San Francisco. “Certainly if most or many of your friends are of a particular religious or political or sexual category, others may conclude you are part of the same category - even if you haven’t said so yourself.”