Facebook patent application (US 20180032883) for "classifiers input information about a user and output a probability that the user belongs to a given socioecon

Facebook 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... Full disclosure: repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315606 (from 70 days ago). Reposted by explicit request of the mods. May now be exceptionally topical in light of the Facebook revelations that have occurred since.