[nthcolumn]

And in the context of privacy with regard to public surveillance systems with facial recognition capability your point is exactly what?

[JulianMorrison]

Social characteristics are voluntary. People who are hiding won't adopt them.

[speedplane]

Homosexual men will have to start wearing ill-fitting suits and dirty gym shorts to avoid being caught by the algorithm.

[nthcolumn]

Totally agree! Heterosexual women will have to wear makeup and grow their hair long to avoid being misidentified as lesbians. Personally I think it is wishful thinking on the part of people who think that you aren't born gay. This algorithm will out even the most repressed homosexual as it is not entirely based on 'social characteristics'. Science doesn't care what you think.

[speedplane]

Gay men and women have blended in undetected for thousands of years all over the world. They've only been able to really come out in the last few decades. If this miserable distopia of automatic homosexual detection came to pass, they would simply go back to blending in again. A miserable existence, but pretty sure they'd be able to fool the robot overlords.

[nthcolumn]

80% of times according to this research the robot overlords will not be fooled. Of course, the success rate is little consolation. The fact that it will be applied at all is the problem. People who expect gay people to go back into hiding are the past.