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Facebook Patent: Socioeconomic group classification based on user features [pdf]
- isp 9y agoFacebook patent application (US 20180032883) for "classifiers input information about a user and output a probability that the user belongs to a given socioeconomic group". Relevant Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/960630738256367617 https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/960630738256367617 Copy-and-paste friendly version of the patent application, but without images: 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 http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H... Limited news coverage, e.g., http://expressnewsline.com/2018/02/05/facebook-to-develop-system-to-track-users-socioeconomic.html http://expressnewsline.com/2018/02/05/facebook-to-develop-sy...