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Advertising Norms

Street accommodation advertising from Bur Dubai includes: “for South Indian”; “Keralite preferred”; “for Muslim bachelor” and “decent executive Muslim bachelors”.

For service designers: whether to explicitly support categorisation based on race, religion, geography? In a world with more personal data floating around whether we're likely to see this extended to: social network; sexual history; STD status; credit rating?

Update: reader Alexander Baxevanis points out that stating a discriminatory preference of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, handicap or disability is illegal in the US - for example articulated for Craigslist users here.

Writing from Mishuku | April 14, 2008 | Permalink