Facebook, once dominated by White and Asian users, now has percentages of Black and Hispanic users that are equally proportionate to the US population. For the research, two Facebook staff members,
along with two grad students from Cornell and Princeton, compared users' last names on Facebook to US Census data about the percentage of people with those last names who reported particular racial
backgrounds. According to ReadWriteWeb, once a larger number of Facebook users have public profiles -- something that's probably happening very rapidly thanks to the "radical" new privacy settings the
company just began recommending -- analyzing things like names, friend lists and associations won't constitute a violation of user privacy anymore.
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