Hi coderman,
> What is the state of public behavior prediction software?
the core issue with doing this open source, is that you're still
going to need invasive privacy destroying data collection to drive
Are you sure about this? Couldn't a user provide their own keystrokes, mouse movements, etc and fine-tune a personalised model on their own system?
the prediction. even if you could make an open source, open data
facestab or gaggle YOU SHOULD NOT because it's a privacy nightmare!
Certainly a model that uses many peoples' data would be stronger than one with only one person's data. But wouldn't it be _better_ to have this data out in the public than held privately by marketing and military organisations?
Then people could tell when they were being profiled, because the data would be added to a public store.
> Is there any public tool that can help people understand this
> technology by playing with it?
playing with behavioral profiles and advertising models in the
context of internet marketing would be an eye opener for most
people. they are simply unaware of the invasive sophistication
of these technologies...
interesting technology, even if prone to global scale abuse...
I'm sure there is public technology around behavior prediction among the research communities already. It's been around for a while.
best regards,
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